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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

By : Mikael Krief
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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

By: Mikael Krief

Overview of this book

In the implementation of DevOps processes, the choice of tools is crucial to the sustainability of projects and collaboration between developers and ops. This book presents the different patterns and tools for provisioning and configuring an infrastructure in the cloud, covering mostly open source tools with a large community contribution, such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer, which are assets for automation. This DevOps book will show you how to containerize your applications with Docker and Kubernetes and walk you through the construction of DevOps pipelines in Jenkins as well as Azure pipelines before covering the tools and importance of testing. You'll find a complete chapter on DevOps practices and tooling for open source projects before getting to grips with security integration in DevOps using Inspec, Hashicorp Vault, and Azure Secure DevOps kit. You'll also learn about the reduction of downtime with blue-green deployment and feature flags techniques before finally covering common DevOps best practices for all your projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built a solid foundation in DevOps and developed the skills necessary to enhance a traditional software delivery process using modern software delivery tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
7
Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
11
Section 3: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
14
Section 4: Testing Your Application
18
Section 5: Taking DevOps Further/More on DevOps

Summary

This chapter is dedicated to integrating security into DevOps practices. We presented three tools to verify and secure your data and cloud infrastructure. We discussed how to check the compliance of an Azure infrastructure using InSpec from Chef.

To do this and check infrastructure compliance, we installed InSpec and then detailed the writing of InSpec tests. We used its command lines to verify the compliance of Azure infrastructure.

In the last section, we saw how to protect sensitive data with Vault from HashiCorp. In this section, we looked at data encryption and decryption in Vault and wrote Terraform code that will dynamically retrieve the secrets stored in Vault.

In the next chapter, we'll present the concept of blue-green deployment with its patterns for reducing deployment downtime. Then, we'll learn how to implement it in an application as well as in the deployment of Azure infrastructure.