DevOps pipelines should be more DevSecOps friendly, incorporating capabilities like secret scans, SAST, DAST, and continuous container monitoring, especially at the artifact storage level, to shift security left and catch issues earlier in the development cycle.
You cannot master modern cloud-native devops without understanding how code moves from a developer’s workstation to production Whether you're a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Developer, or SRE, here’s a visual step-by-step DevOps Delivery Workflow with Google Cloud that can help: 1. Source Code Management ↳ Developers write and push code to version control platforms like GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket, or Google Cloud Source Repositories. 2. Build ↳ CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, or Google Cloud Build compile the code and run automated tests. 3. Store Artifacts ↳ Once the build passes, artifacts (packages, images, etc.) are stored in registries like Artifact Registry, Cloud Storage, Docker Hub etc 4. Deploy Infrastructure ↳ Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Pulumi to provision and configure cloud infrastructure. 5. Test & Monitor ↳ Tools like Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, and Google Cloud Operations suite to monitor app health, performance, and availability. 6. Deploy to Cloud ↳ The final application is deployed to Google Cloud services — Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), App Engine, or Cloud Run — depending on the use case. This is the full journey of delivering software in a cloud-native, scalable, and secure way — from local code to live product on the cloud. If you're aiming for a role in the cloud devops domain, being able to explain this flow — especially with real-world tools — is essential. If you found this useful: • • • I regularly share practical DevOps workflows, tools, and tips — follow me (Vishakha) for more content like this, and feel free to share it with anyone learning Cloud DevOps.