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Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

By : Paul Swartout
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Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

By: Paul Swartout

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps have been in the spotlight in tech media, at conferences, and in boardrooms alike. Many articles and books have been written covering the technical aspects of CD and DevOps, yet the vast majority of the industry doesn’t fully understand what they actually are and how, if adopted correctly they can help organizations drastically change the way they deliver value. This book will help you figure out how CD and DevOps can help you to optimize, streamline, and improve the way you work to consistently deliver quality software. In this edition, you’ll be introduced to modern tools, techniques, and examples to help you understand what the adoption of CD and DevOps entails. It provides clear and concise insights in to what CD and DevOps are all about, how to go about both preparing for and adopting them, and what quantifiable value they bring. You will be guided through the various stages of adoption, the impact they will have on your business and those working within it, how to overcome common problems, and what to do once CD and DevOps have become truly embedded. Included within this book are some real-world examples, tricks, and tips that will help ease the adoption process and allow you to fully utilize the power of CD and DevOps

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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
The Evolution of Software Delivery
The Evolution of Software Delivery
ACME systems – evolution phase 1.0
ACME systems evolution phase 2.0
ACME systems evolution phase 3.0
ACME systems beyond Version 3.0
The evolution in a nutshell
Where am I on the evolutionary scale?
Summary
2
Understanding Your Current Pain Points
Understanding Your Current Pain Points
Elephant in the room
Defining the rules
Including (almost) everyone
Openness, transparency, and honesty
The great elephant disclosure
Summary
3
Culture and Behaviors are the Cornerstones to Success
Culture and Behaviors are the Cornerstones to Success
All roads lead to culture
An open, honest, and safe environment
Encouraging and embracing collaboration
Fostering innovation and accountability at a grass-roots level
The blame game
Building trust-based relationships across organizational boundaries
Rewarding good behaviors and success
Recognizing how Dev and Ops teams are incentivized can have an impact
Embracing change and reducing risk
Being transparent
Summary
4
Planning for Success
Planning for Success
Some common problems
Setting and communicating goals and vision
Standardizing vocabulary and language
A business change project in its own right
The importance of evangelism
Seeking advice from others
Summary
5
Approaches, Tools, and Techniques
Approaches, Tools, and Techniques
Engineering best practices
Continuous integration
Summary
6
Avoiding Hurdles
Avoiding Hurdles
What are the potential issues you need to look out for?
Corporate guidelines, red tape, and standards
Geographically diverse teams
Failure during the evolution
Processes that are not repeatable
Bridging the skills gap
Changes in leadership
Summary
7
Vital Measurements
Vital Measurements
Measuring effective engineering best practices
Summary
8
You Are Not Finished Just Yet
You Are Not Finished Just Yet
Reflecting on where you are now
Streaming
A victim of your own success
[P]lan, [D]o, [C]heck, [A]djust
Resting on your laurels (not)
Summary
9
Expanding Your Opportunity Horizon
Expanding Your Opportunity Horizon
What about me?
Performance and load-testing
Reducing feature-flag complexity
A/B testing
Blue-green deployments
Security-patching and bacon-saving
Order-out-of-chaos monkey
End user self-service
Thing as a service
Summary
10
CD and DevOps Beyond Traditional Software Delivery
CD and DevOps Beyond Traditional Software Delivery
CD, DevOps, and the mobile world
What about me?
What have you learned?
Summary
11
Some Useful Information
Some Useful Information
Tools
People
Recommended reading
Retrospective games
Vital measurements expanded
12
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Tools

Some of the following tools are mentioned within this book, and some are considered the best of breed for CD and DevOps:

Tool

Description

Where to find more information

Jenkins

https://jenkins.io/

GIT

A free and open source distributed version-control system

https://git-scm.com/

GitHub

An online-hosted community solution based on GIT

https://github.com/

Graphite

A highly scalable real-time graphing system that allows you to publish metric data from within your application

http://graphiteapp.org/

Tasseo

A simple-to-use Graphite dashboard

https://github.com/obfuscurity/tasseo

SonarQube

An open platform to manage code quality

https://www.sonarqube.org/

Ganglia

A scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems

http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/

Nagios

A powerful monitoring system...

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