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DevOps for backend engineers **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 108 min read · 20 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary We cover: - What DevOps Is, And How It Is Measured - From A Commit To An Artefact: Git, CI, GitHub Actions, Secrets - What A Container Is: Namespaces, Cgroups, Layers, Registries - Running It: Systemd, TLS, Kamal, Kubernetes - Shipping A Change Safely: Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary, GitOps - Infrastructure As Code: Terraform, State, Drift - Keeping It Up: SLOs, On-Call, Incidents, Postmortems - Trusting What You Ship: The Supply Chain, The xz Backdoor Resources: - DORA, Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2024: https://dora.dev/research/2024/dora-report/ - Vincent Driessen, A successful Git branching model: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ - Liz Rice, containers from scratch: https://github.com/lizrice/containers-from-scratch - runc: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc - dive: https://github.com/wagoodman/dive - Trivy: https://trivy.dev/ - Caddy: https://caddyserver.com/ - Kamal: https://kamal-deploy.org/ - Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/ - k9s: https://k9scli.io/ - Argo CD: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/ - Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform - Grafana: https://grafana.com/ - Cloudflare, 18 November 2025 outage: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ - Andres Freund, backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 Timestamps: 0:00 What DevOps is, and why it exists 6:39 How it is measured: the four DORA numbers 11:13 Git branching: trunk, git-flow, releases 15:50 Continuous integration: the pipeline, GitHub Actions 21:45 Secrets, and how the pipeline talks to the cloud 26:26 What a container is 29:59 Namespaces, cgroups, a container from scratch 38:18 Images, layers, and the Dockerfile 46:31 Registries, runtimes, the OCI, and scanning the image 53:59 Running it on one machine: systemd, TLS, Kamal 1:00:59 Kubernetes: the cluster, pods, the control loop 1:09:26 Manifests, rollouts, and the ladder of hosting 1:16:26 Shipping a change safely: rolling, blue-green, canary 1:21:40 GitOps and Argo CD 1:25:18 Infrastructure as code: Terraform, state, drift 1:33:01 Keeping it up: SLOs, on-call, incidents, postmortems 1:45:39 Trusting what you ship: the supply chain and xz 1:47:22 The whole picture, end to end Join the Discord community: https://discord.gg/NXuybNcvVH #backend #nodejs #golang #softwareengineering ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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