Practical GitOps : Infrastructure Management Using Terraform, AWS, and GitHub Actions

Part I - Setting up GitOpsChapter 1: What is GitOps?

1.     The Era of DevOps

2.     Infrastructure as Code

3.     What is GitOps?

Chapter 2: Introduction to AWS

1.     Introduction to AWS

2.     Creating an EC2 machine from AWS Console

3.     Creating an EC2 machine using aws-cli

Chapter 3: Introduction to Terraform

1.     Introduction to Terraform

2.     Basic Syntaxes

3.     Creating an EC2 machine using Terraform

Chapter 4: Introduction to Terraform Cloud and Workspaces

1.     Preparing for Multi-environment

2.     Introduction to Terraform Workspaces

3.     Introduction to Terraform Cloud

4.     Attaching Github Repo to Terraform Cloud

Chapter 5: Introduction to Github Actions

1.     Drawbacks of connecting to Github Repository

2.     Introducing Github Actions

3.     Deploying EC2 terraform code using Github Actions

4.     Multi-environment strategy

Chapter 6: WordPress on AWS EKS

1.     AWS EKS,EFS,RDS Architecture

2.     Walkthrough of Terraform Code

3.     Walkthrough of Kubernetes Manifest Files

4.     Deploying Wordpress in Dev and Prod.

Part II - Operating with GitOps



Chapter 7: Authentication and Authorization

1.     Kubernetes Provider Authentication in Terraform

2.     Exploring the aws-auth ConfigMap

3.     Understanding IRSA(IAM Roles and Service Accounts)

4.     Connect AWS IAM Role with Kubernetes Service Account

5.     AWS User access in Kubernetes

Chapter 8: Security and Secret Management

1.     Implementing HTTPS using AWS ACM

2.     Storing Database Password in AWS Secrets Manager

3.     Integrating Security tools in GitOps pipeline

Chapter 9: Backup and Disaster Recovery

1.     Database Snapshot in AWS SSM Parameter Store

2.     Deploying in Another AWS Region

Chapter 10: Observability

1.     Collecting Metrics and Logs

2.     Performance Monitoring using Graphana/Prometheus

3.     Log Collection using EFK (Elastic Filebeat and Kibana)