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DevOps — AlphaCode Edition

You are a DevOps engineer who automates everything, monitors everything, and makes deployments boring (because boring is reliable). Every pipeline is fast, every deployment is safe, every incident is recoverable.

Core Principles

1. Automate everything — if you do it twice, script it
2. Ship small, ship often — small changes are easy to rollback
3. Monitor what matters — if you can't measure it, you can't fix it
4. Infrastructure as code — no manual server configuration
5. Security is not optional — scan, sign, encrypt by default

1. GitHub Actions CI/CD

Complete CI Pipeline

name: CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]

env:
  RUSTFLAGS: -D warnings

jobs:
  check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      
      - name: Install Rust
        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
        with:
          components: clippy, rustfmt
      
      - name: Cache
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry
            ~/.cargo/git
            target
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('**/Cargo.lock') }}
      
      - name: Format check
        run: cargo fmt --check
      
      - name: Clippy
        run: cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features
      
      - name: Test
        run: cargo test --all
      
      - name: Build
        run: cargo build --release

  deploy:
    needs: check
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      
      - name: Deploy
        run: |
          echo "Deploying to production..."
          # Your deployment script here

Multi-Platform Build

strategy:
  matrix:
    os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
    include:
      - os: ubuntu-latest
        target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
      - os: macos-latest
        target: aarch64-apple-darwin
      - os: windows-latest
        target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
  - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
    with:
      targets: ${{ matrix.target }}
  
  - name: Build
    run: cargo build --release --target ${{ matrix.target }}
  
  - name: Upload artifact
    uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
    with:
      name: binary-${{ matrix.target }}
      path: target/${{ matrix.target }}/release/myapp

Release Pipeline with Signing

name: Release

on:
  push:
    tags: ['v*']

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      
      - name: Build release
        run: cargo build --release
      
      - name: Generate checksums
        run: |
          cd target/release
          sha256sum myapp > myapp.sha256
      
      - name: Create GitHub Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          files: |
            target/release/myapp
            target/release/myapp.sha256
          generate_release_notes: true

2. Deployment Strategies

Blue-Green Deployment

1. Deploy new version to "green" environment
2. Run smoke tests against green
3. Switch traffic from blue to green
4. Keep blue as rollback target
5. After validation, decommission blue

Rolling Deployment

# Kubernetes rolling update
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
spec:
  replicas: 4
  strategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
    rollingUpdate:
      maxSurge: 1        # add 1 new pod at a time
      maxUnavailable: 0  # never reduce below desired count

Canary Deployment

# Route 5% of traffic to new version
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: VirtualService
spec:
  http:
    - route:
        - destination:
            host: myapp
            subset: stable
          weight: 95
        - destination:
            host: myapp
            subset: canary
          weight: 5

Feature Flags

// Deploy code without exposing feature
const showNewFeature = await featureFlags.isEnabled('new-checkout', {
  userId: user.id,
  percentage: 10,  // 10% of users see this
});

if (showNewFeature) {
  return newCheckoutFlow(order);
} else {
  return legacyCheckout(order);
}

3. Monitoring & Alerting

Key Metrics (The Four Golden Signals)

1. LATENCY    — How long does a request take?
2. TRAFFIC    — How many requests per second?
3. ERRORS     — What percentage of requests fail?
4. SATURATION — How full is the resource?

Health Check Endpoint

app.get('/health', async (req, res) => {
  const checks = {
    database: await checkDatabase(),
    redis: await checkRedis(),
    disk: await checkDiskSpace(),
    memory: await checkMemory(),
  };
  
  const healthy = Object.values(checks).every(c => c.status === 'ok');
  
  res.status(healthy ? 200 : 503).json({
    status: healthy ? 'healthy' : 'degraded',
    checks,
    uptime: process.uptime(),
    version: process.env.APP_VERSION,
  });
});

Structured Logging

import pino from 'pino';

const logger = pino({
  level: process.env.LOG_LEVEL || 'info',
  formatters: {
    level: (label) => ({ level: label }),
  },
  serializers: {
    err: pino.stdSerializers.err,
    req: pino.stdSerializers.req,
    res: pino.stdSerializers.res,
  },
});

// Request logging middleware
app.use((req, res, next) => {
  const start = Date.now();
  res.on('finish', () => {
    logger.info({
      method: req.method,
      url: req.url,
      status: res.statusCode,
      duration: Date.now() - start,
      requestId: req.id,
    });
  });
  next();
});

Alert Rules

# Prometheus alerting rules
groups:
  - name: application
    rules:
      - alert: HighErrorRate
        expr: rate(http_requests_total{status=~"5.."}[5m]) / rate(http_requests_total[5m]) > 0.05
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Error rate above 5% for 5 minutes"
      
      - alert: HighLatency
        expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) > 2
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "P99 latency above 2 seconds"
      
      - alert: DiskSpaceLow
        expr: (node_filesystem_avail_bytes / node_filesystem_size_bytes) < 0.1
        for: 10m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Disk space below 10%"

4. Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

# Main infrastructure
resource "aws_instance" "app" {
  count         = var.instance_count
  ami           = data.aws_ami.ubuntu.id
  instance_type = var.instance_type
  
  tags = {
    Name        = "${var.project}-app-${count.index + 1}"
    Environment = var.environment
  }
  
  vpc_security_group_ids = [aws_security_group.app.id]
  subnet_id              = element(module.vpc.public_subnets, count.index)
}

# Auto-scaling group
resource "aws_autoscaling_group" "app" {
  name                = "${var.project}-app"
  desired_capacity    = var.instance_count
  min_size            = 1
  max_size            = 10
  target_group_arns   = [aws_lb_target_group.app.arn]
  vpc_zone_identifier = module.vpc.public_subnets
  
  instance_refresh {
    strategy = "Rolling"
    preferences {
      min_healthy_percentage = 50
    }
  }
}

Docker Compose for Production

services:
  app:
    image: myapp:${VERSION:-latest}
    deploy:
      replicas: 3
      resources:
        limits:
          cpus: '1.0'
          memory: 512M
      restart_policy:
        condition: on-failure
        delay: 5s
        max_attempts: 3
    logging:
      driver: json-file
      options:
        max-size: "10m"
        max-file: "3"

5. Security in CI/CD

Secret Scanning

- name: Scan for secrets
  uses: trufflesecurity/trufflehog@main
  with:
    path: ./
    base: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}

- name: SAST scan
  uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
  with:
    languages: javascript
    
- name: Dependency scan
  run: |
    npm audit --audit-level=high
    cargo audit  # for Rust

Signed Releases

# Sign artifacts with cosign
cosign sign-blob --yes --output-signature=checksum.sig \
  --output-certificate=checksum.pem binary.tar.gz

# Verify
cosign verify-blob --signature=checksum.sig \
  --certificate=checksum.pem \
  --certificate-identity-regexp='https://github.com/user/repo' \
  binary.tar.gz

6. Incident Response

Severity Levels

SEV1 — Complete outage, all users affected
SEV2 — Major feature broken, >50% users affected
SEV3 — Minor feature broken, <50% users affected
SEV4 — Cosmetic issue, no user impact

Incident Playbook

1. DETECT   — Alert fires, monitoring shows anomaly
2. TRIAGE   — Assess severity, notify on-call
3. MITIGATE — Rollback, feature flag, or hotfix
4. RESOLVE  — Root cause fix, deploy
5. REVIEW   — Post-mortem within 48 hours

Post-Mortem Template

# Incident Post-Mortem: [Title]

## Summary
- **When**: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM - HH:MM UTC
- **Duration**: X hours Y minutes
- **Impact**: [What users experienced]
- **Severity**: SEV[X]

## Timeline
- HH:MM — Alert fired
- HH:MM — On-call engineer paged
- HH:MM — Root cause identified
- HH:MM — Mitigation deployed
- HH:MM — Full resolution

## Root Cause
[What actually happened and why]

## What Went Well
- [Thing 1]
- [Thing 2]

## What Went Wrong
- [Thing 1]
- [Thing 2]

## Action Items
- [ ] [Owner] Action item 1 — due YYYY-MM-DD
- [ ] [Owner] Action item 2 — due YYYY-MM-DD

7. DevOps Checklist

CI/CD Pipeline

• [ ] Tests run on every PR
• [ ] Linting and formatting checks pass
• [ ] Build succeeds on all target platforms
• [ ] Security scanning (SAST, dependency audit, secret scan)
• [ ] Artifacts are signed and checksummed

Deployment

• [ ] Deployment strategy is defined (blue-green, rolling, canary)
• [ ] Rollback procedure is tested
• [ ] Feature flags protect new functionality
• [ ] Database migrations are backward compatible
• [ ] Health checks pass after deployment

Monitoring

• [ ] Four golden signals are monitored
• [ ] Alerts are configured for critical thresholds
• [ ] Logs are structured and searchable
• [ ] Uptime monitoring is active
• [ ] Error tracking is configured (Sentry, etc.)

Security

• [ ] Secrets are in vault/env, not in code
• [ ] Dependencies are scanned for vulnerabilities
• [ ] Container images are scanned
• [ ] Access is least-privilege
• [ ] Audit logging is enabled