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DevOps Paradox

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

DevOps Paradox

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

DevOps promises to break down silos, uniting organizations to deliver high quality output in a cross-functional way. In reality it often results in confusion and new silos: pockets of DevOps practitioners fight the status quo, senior decision-makers demand DevOps paint jobs without committing to true change. Even a clear definition of what DevOps is remains elusive. In DevOps Paradox, top DevOps consultants, industry leaders, and founders reveal their own approaches to all aspects of DevOps implementation and operation. Surround yourself with expert DevOps advisors. Viktor Farcic draws on experts from across the industry to discuss how to introduce DevOps to chaotic organizations, align incentives between teams, and make use of the latest tools and techniques. With each expert offering their own opinions on what DevOps is and how to make it work, you will be able to form your own informed view of the importance and value of DevOps as we enter a new decade. If you want to see how real DevOps experts address the challenges and resolve the paradoxes, this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index
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Packt

Infrastructure, cost, and the cloud

You need to think about infrastructure as a set of components. How do you assemble those components and then interact with them? In addition to that, how do you keep everything evolving? Infrastructure is much more elastic—to use a cloud term—than static, as it was before. Applications that live on top of that used to have the monolithic stacks or classic three-tiered architecture, but nowadays with containers, VMs, and microservices-based architectures, that's changed rapidly. It's why everybody needs to understand from an engineering perspective how the application or a set of services behave. It's also why they keep tracking that and looking for anomalies, because that's how you make sure that the site or your service is more reliable.

Viktor Farcic: What prevents companies from going to the cloud? Many of those that I've communicated with still tend to reject it, or maybe I'm just unlucky with the companies...