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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We're doing two things in this command – first, we are running gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=flask-app-secret to access the contents of the secret, and then we are piping it directly to kubectl apply -f -."

A block of code is set as follows:

...
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: '<your_docker_user>/flask-app-secret:1'
          name: flask-app
          ports:
            - containerPort: 5000
          env:
            - name: SECRET
              valueFrom:
                 secretKeyRef:
                   name: flask-app-secret
                   key: SECRET

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Click Flash from Etcher to write the image."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-\
Practices.git modern-devops $ cd modern-devops/ch7

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