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Modern DevOps Practices

By : Gaurav Agarwal
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Modern DevOps Practices

By: Gaurav Agarwal

Overview of this book

Containers have entirely changed how developers and end-users see applications as a whole. With this book, you'll learn all about containers, their architecture and benefits, and how to implement them within your development lifecycle. You'll discover how you can transition from the traditional world of virtual machines and adopt modern ways of using DevOps to ship a package of software continuously. Starting with a quick refresher on the core concepts of containers, you'll move on to study the architectural concepts to implement modern ways of application development. You'll cover topics around Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, and other similar tools that will help you to build a base. As you advance, the book covers the core elements of cloud integration (AWS ECS, GKE, and other CaaS services), continuous integration, and continuous delivery (GitHub actions, Jenkins, and Spinnaker) to help you understand the essence of container management and delivery. The later sections of the book will take you through container pipeline security and GitOps (Flux CD and Terraform). By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have learned best practices for automating your development lifecycle and making the most of containers, infrastructure automation, and CaaS, and be ready to develop applications using modern tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Container Fundamentals and Best Practices
7
Section 2: Delivering Containers
15
Section 3: Modern DevOps with GitOps

Creating the Apache and MySQL playbooks

As our goal is to spin up a scalable LAMP stack in this chapter, we need to start by defining Ansible playbooks that would run on the build Virtual Machine. We've already created some roles for Apache and MySQL in Chapter 7, Configuration Management with Ansible. We will use the same roles within this setup as well.

Therefore, we will have the following directory structure within the ch8 directory:

.
├── dbserver-playbook.yaml
├── dbserver-packer.json
├── roles
│   ├── apache
│   ├── common
│   └── mysql
├── webserver-playbook.json
└── webserver-packer.yaml

We have two playbooks here – webserver-playbook.yaml and dbserver-playbook.yaml. Let's look at each one to understand how we write our playbooks for...