Beginner’s Guide to DevOps with GitHub Actions & AWS

Commit to Cloud - Beginner’s Guide to DevOps with GitHub Actions & AWS

Tired of wrestling with setup guides that never get you to something real? This book combines practical tutorials with core DevOps concepts so you not only get things running—you understand why they matter.

By the end, you’ll have built your own CI/CD pipeline:

• Automatically test, build, and containerize your applications
• Push code to GitHub and watch it deploy to AWS
• See how GitHub Actions and AWS services work together in practice

Along the way, you’ll learn the foundations of DevOps: automation, version control, cloud infrastructure, and continuous delivery principles that modern teams rely on every day.

Whether you’re a developer curious about DevOps, or an engineer looking to sharpen your skills, this guide helps you connect the dots—giving you the confidence to understand DevOps and apply it to real projects.

Compatible with Linux, macOS, and Windows — so you can follow along no matter your setup.

What’s inside this book

• Step-by-step setup of Git, Docker, AWS CLI, and GitHub Actions
• Containerizing and running your first application in the cloud
• Building a CI/CD workflow that tests, builds, and deploys automatically
• Practical DevOps principles explained in plain language
• Bonus: DevOps Cheat Sheet with Git, Docker, and AWS commands for quick reference

Format & access: All items are PDFs. You'll get instant download links after checkout.

I'm Simon 🙋‍♂️ A software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale systems. I've led teams through adopting DevOps practices, integrating cloud services, and shipping reliable software at scale. With this book, I've distills years of hard-won lessons into a clear, beginner-friendly guide.

I've written multiple articles about Software Engineering and related topics. You can find them on Medium and you can find other projects of mine on GitHub. Feel free to reach out for questions!