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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

Other CaaS products

Amazon ECS provides a versatile way of managing your container workloads. It works great when you have a smaller, simpler architecture and don't want to add the additional overhead of using a complex container orchestration engine such as Kubernetes.

Tip

If you run exclusively on AWS and you don't have a need for a future multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud strategy, ECS is an excellent tool choice. Fargate makes it easier to deploy your containers and run them without worrying about the infrastructure behind the scenes.

ECS is tightly coupled with AWS and its architecture. To solve this problem, we can use managed services within AWS, such as the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). It offers the Kubernetes API to schedule your workloads. This makes managing containers even more versatile as you can spin up a Kubernetes cluster with ease and use a standard, open source solution that you can install and run anywhere you like. This does not tie you to a particular...