How I Built a Production-Grade DevOps Project From Scratch

A walkthrough of building a real CI/CD pipeline, AWS infrastructure, and containerised app — the way it's actually done in production. Why I Built This Most DevOps tutorials show you how to deploy a "Hello World" app to a single EC2 instance with hardcoded AWS keys. That's fine for learning the basics, but it doesn't reflect what production engineering actually looks like. I wanted to build something I could point to and say — this is how I would do it at a real company. No shortcuts, no tutorial hand-holding. The result: a fully automated pipeline that takes code from a git push to a live HTTPS endpoint on AWS, with security scanning, infrastructure as code, observability, and zero static credentials anywhere. Live URL: https://tasks.therealblessing.com GitHub: github.com/nanafilbert/cicd-aws-terraform-deploy What I Built A Node.js task manager API with a Kanban dashboard UI, deployed to AWS behind an Application Load Balancer with: 8-stage GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline OIDC keyless A