DevOps & Deployment | Developers Handbook

🗃Docker

Package apps into portable containers with Docker — concepts explained, plus a hands-on guide to building and running images.

Rent virtual servers on AWS with EC2. Covers the essentials and a hands-on guide to launching and deploying to an instance.

Run code without managing servers using AWS Lambda — serverless fundamentals and a hands-on function deployment guide.

AWS's simplest VPS: fixed pricing and preconfigured blueprints. Includes a hands-on walkthrough of launching a server.

Store files and host static sites with S3 object storage — key concepts plus a hands-on bucket setup guide.

Serve static files and reverse-proxy traffic to backend apps with Nginx, with a hands-on configuration guide.

Automate build, test, and deploy pipelines with GitHub Actions — CI/CD concepts and a hands-on workflow setup.

Keep Node.js apps alive in production with PM2 process management — essentials plus a hands-on server setup.

Define multi-container stacks in one YAML file with Docker Compose, including a hands-on app-plus-database example.

Get free HTTPS with Let's Encrypt and Certbot — how SSL works, plus a hands-on Nginx certificate setup with auto-renewal.

Run managed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on AWS RDS — core concepts and a hands-on instance creation guide.

Manage DNS on AWS with Route 53: hosted zones and records explained, plus a hands-on domain-to-server setup.

Speed up content delivery with CloudFront's global CDN — caching concepts and a hands-on S3 distribution setup.

Control who can do what in AWS with IAM users, roles, and policies — fundamentals plus a hands-on permissions guide.

Monitor AWS resources with CloudWatch logs, metrics, and alarms — concepts plus a hands-on alerting walkthrough.

Free DNS, CDN, and DDoS protection in front of your server — how Cloudflare works, with a hands-on domain setup.

Define AWS infrastructure as version-controlled code with Terraform — IaC concepts and a hands-on provisioning guide.

Orchestrate containers at scale with Kubernetes — pods, deployments, and services, plus a hands-on cluster walkthrough.

Deploy frontend apps straight from Git with Vercel and Netlify — platform concepts and a hands-on deployment guide.

Host private Docker images on AWS with ECR — registry concepts plus a hands-on push-and-pull walkthrough.

Run Docker containers in production on AWS with ECS and Fargate — core concepts and a hands-on deployment guide.