DevOps for Rust Developers: Automation, CI/CD, and Deployment

This book is the first practical guide in Russian that combines the power of Rust with modern DevOps practices. You will learn to build reliable, scalable, and automated pipelines for your projects using the best tools in the ecosystem.

The book is suitable both for beginner Rust developers who want to master the infrastructure side, and for experienced engineers looking for ready-made recipes for CI/CD, containerization, and orchestration. You don't need to be an expert in DevOps — all concepts are explained from scratch, with an emphasis on the specifics of the Rust language: fast compilation, memory safety, cross-compilation, and minimal binary size.

What you will learn:

• How to set up GitHub Actions and GitLab CI for automatic building, testing, and linting of Rust code.
• Optimal strategies for caching dependencies and artifacts to speed up pipelines.
• Creating lightweight Docker images with multi-stage builds (distroless, scratch).
• Deploying web services on Actix-web, Axum, and Rocket to Kubernetes (Minikube, Kind, cloud clusters).
• Setting up monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for Rust applications.
• Automating the release cycle: semantic versioning, changelog, publishing to crates.io.
• Cross-compilation for ARM, Windows, and macOS using GitHub Actions self-hosted runners.

Why this book is important: Rust is a language for systems where reliability is critical. DevOps practices help you not lose this advantage during deployment. You will learn to avoid common mistakes: "fat" images, slow builds, unsafe configurations. Each chapter contains ready-made configuration files that can be adapted to your project.

The book also covers advanced topics: integration testing with Testcontainers, dependency security (cargo-audit, cargo-deny), A/B testing in Kubernetes, and zero-downtime deployment for high-load services. At the end, you will find a checklist for auditing DevOps processes in any Rust project.

Whether you are writing a CLI utility, a web server, or an embedded project — this book will help you deliver code to users quickly, safely, and with minimal effort.