"CircleCI in Practice"
"CircleCI in Practice" is a definitive guide for engineering leaders, DevOps practitioners, and software teams seeking to master Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using CircleCI. With comprehensive coverage that starts from the evolution of DevOps pipelines to the nuances of advanced YAML configuration, this book demystifies CircleCI's architecture, workflows, and role in cloud-native development. Real-world strategies are presented for onboarding projects, modeling complex pipelines, ensuring security, and integrating with tools across the modern software delivery ecosystem.
The book delves into best practices for optimizing every aspect of your CI/CD processes, whether handling polyglot codebases, accelerating pipelines through caching and parallelization, or implementing robust quality gates. Readers will gain actionable insights into deployment automation, including cloud-native delivery, blue-green and canary releases, disaster recovery, and Kubernetes integration. Specialized chapters address scaling CircleCI for enterprise environments: managing microservices and monorepos, orchestrating cross-repository workflows, and provisioning dynamic ephemeral environments for secure and efficient testing.
Going beyond setup and operation, "CircleCI in Practice" tackles observability, governance, security, and compliance—critical for organizations navigating regulatory demands and high reliability expectations. Through rigorous explorations of monitoring, policy automation, incident response, and access management, the book empowers teams to build resilient, auditable, and cost-optimized pipelines. Illustrated with real-world adoption case studies and actionable migration guides, it serves as an indispensable reference for teams intent on delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality software with CircleCI.