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DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By : Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria
Book Image

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By: Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria

Overview of this book

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift features many different real-world practices - some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related - to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering. Containers and container-centric application lifecycle management are now an industry standard, and OpenShift has a leading position in a flourishing market of enterprise Kubernetes-based product offerings. DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides a roadmap for building empowered product teams within your organization. This guide brings together lean, agile, design thinking, DevOps, culture, facilitation, and hands-on technical enablement all in one book. Through a combination of real-world stories, a practical case study, facilitation guides, and technical implementation details, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides tools and techniques to build a DevOps culture within your organization on Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Practices Make Perfect
6
Section 2: Establishing the Foundation
11
Section 3: Discover It
15
Section 4: Prioritize It
17
Section 5: Deliver It
20
Section 6: Build It, Run It, Own It
24
Section 7: Improve It, Sustain It
27
Index
Appendix B – Additional Learning Resources

Metadata and Traceability

With the adoption of independently deployable services-based architectures, the complexity of managing these components and their inter-relationships is becoming problematic. In the following sections, we will outline a number of techniques that can assist you with this.

Labels

As mentioned earlier, labels and label selectors are among the more powerful metadata management features of Kubernetes. At its core, labels are a collection of text-based key/value pairs that can be attached to one or more objects: Pods, services, Deployments, and so on. Labels are intended to add information/semantics to objects that are relevant to the user and not the core Kubernetes system. A label selector is a method by which a user can group items together that have the same labels.

One of the most common uses of labels and label selectors in Kubernetes is the way that services use label selectors to group related Pods as endpoints for the service.

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