Summary

After completing this chapter, you should have a good understanding of the DevOps way of working and the use of CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments. Everything is code in cloud, from the application to the infrastructure and the configuration. Code needs to be stored in a central repository and brought under version control. That's where the CI/CD pipeline starts. Next, the DevOps team defines the phases of the pipeline, typically build, test, and deploy. Actions in these phases are automated as much as possible.

We learned that we must integrate security from the moment developers start writing or pulling code. Access to the code, the code itself, the pipelines, and the target clouds that we use must be secured and protected from breaches by identifying vulnerabilities and taking appropriate mitigating actions. We studied the various technologies and tools that provide CI/CD functionality and explored how we can protect our applications when we work with CI/CD by applying...