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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
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

As stated at the beginning of this chapter was a lot to cover and a lot to take in. Some of it is relevant to you now and some of it will be relevant for the future.

At this point you should have a greater understanding and appreciation for how agile engineering best practices (including use of source control, CI, incremental delivery, test automation, failing fast) along with modern architectural approaches, delivery methods and in-depth monitoring will ease your CD and DevOps adoption. Above all you should have learned that it's not all about technical tools and techniques, sometimes simple processes can solve problems.

We'll now move on from ways to advance your CD and DevOps adoption to the kinds of issues which will trip you up along the way, how to spot them and how to get passed them.