The AIOps Book
The AIOps Book
From Manual Operations to AI-Powered Infrastructure
About the Book
Transform your infrastructure operations with AI-powered automation that actually works in production. This comprehensive guide teaches DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform architects how to build intelligent systems using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI agents with Go.
Stop copying configuration files into ChatGPT and start building AI assistants that understand your AWS environment directly. Learn to create MCP servers that give AI systems real-time access to your infrastructure, develop agents that can provision complete environments from natural language descriptions, and implement secure automation workflows that augment human expertise without replacing it.
Written by a practicing DevOps engineer for practitioners, this book focuses on production-ready solutions rather than theoretical concepts. You'll build working systems from day one: MCP servers that integrate with AWS APIs, AI agents that can analyze deployment failures and suggest specific fixes, and complete automation workflows that handle the repetitive tasks while keeping humans in control of critical decisions.
Every chapter includes working Go code examples, real-world scenarios, and practical patterns you can adapt to your environment. The companion GitHub repository provides complete implementations that you can deploy and extend immediately.
Whether you're automating your first infrastructure task with AI or designing enterprise-scale AIOps platforms, this book gives you the knowledge and tools to build systems that are both intelligent and reliable. Learn to leverage AI's pattern recognition and reasoning capabilities while maintaining the security, auditability, and control that production environments require.
The future of infrastructure operations isn't about replacing DevOps engineers with AI—it's about augmenting human expertise with tools that can handle complexity at scale. Start building that future today.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Who This Book Is For
- What You’ll Build
- How This Book Is Organized
- A Note on the Rapidly Evolving Landscape
- Acknowledgments to the Community
- Part I: Foundation
- Chapter 1: The AIOps Revolution
- The Limits of Traditional Automation
- What AIOps Really Means
- The Infrastructure Context Problem
- Enter MCP and AI Agents
- Real-World Impact and Case Studies
- Why This Matters Now
- What You’ll Learn in This Book
- Chapter 2: AI Fundamentals for DevOps Engineers
- Understanding Large Language Models for Infrastructure Work
- The Context Window and Memory Limitations
- Prompt Engineering for Infrastructure Automation
- AI Capabilities and Limitations in Operations
- Security Considerations for AI-Powered Infrastructure
- Integration Patterns with Existing Tools
- Choosing the Right AI Models and Providers
- Building Reliable AI Systems
- What’s Next
- Chapter 3: Model Context Protocol Deep Dive
- What MCP Is and Why It Matters
- MCP Architecture and Core Concepts
- Protocol Specifications and Communication Patterns
- MCP vs REST APIs and GraphQL
- Real-World MCP Use Cases in DevOps
- The MCP Ecosystem and Tooling
- Security and Trust in MCP Implementation
- Protocol Evolution and Future Directions
- What’s Next
- Chapter 4: Setting Up Your Development Environment
- Go Development Environment for MCP
- AWS CLI and SDK Configuration
- AI Tools Integration
- What’s Next
- Chapter 5: Your First MCP Server in Go
- Project Structure and Dependencies
- Basic MCP Protocol Implementation
- AWS SDK Integration
- Resource Discovery and Formatting
- Testing Your MCP Server
- What’s Next
- Chapter 6: MCP Tools for Infrastructure Actions
- Understanding MCP Tools vs Resources
- Project Structure for Tools
- Implementing MCP Tools
- Extending the AWS Client
- Tool Registration in MCP Server
- Real-World Example: Complete AI-to-Infrastructure Flow
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 7: Advanced AWS Operations
- The Production Infrastructure
- AWS Infrastructure Fundamentals
- Enhanced MCP Server Architecture
- Extended Project Structure
- Core Parameter Structures
- VPC and Networking Tools Implementation
- Auto Scaling Group Tools Implementation
- Application Load Balancer Tools Implementation
- RDS Tools Implementation
- Tool Registration and MCP Integration
- Real-World Example: Complete Production Deployment
- Chapter Summary
- What’s Next
- Preface
The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.
You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?
See full terms...
Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earnedover $14 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
