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Learning DevOps

By : Mikael Krief
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Learning DevOps

By: Mikael Krief

Overview of this book

The implementation of DevOps processes requires the efficient use of various tools, and the choice of these tools is crucial for the sustainability of projects and collaboration between development (Dev) and operations (Ops). This book presents the different patterns and tools that you can use to provision and configure an infrastructure in the cloud. You'll begin by understanding DevOps culture, the application of DevOps in cloud infrastructure, provisioning with Terraform, configuration with Ansible, and image building with Packer. You'll then be taken through source code versioning with Git and the construction of a DevOps CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure Pipelines. This DevOps handbook will also guide you in containerizing and deploying your applications with Docker and Kubernetes. You'll learn how to reduce deployment downtime with blue-green deployment and the feature flags technique, and study DevOps practices for open source projects. Finally, you'll grasp some best practices for reducing the overall application lead time to ensure faster time to market. 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 (23 chapters)
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Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
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Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
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Section 3: Containerized Applications with Docker and Kubernetes
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Section 4: Testing Your Application
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Section 5: Taking DevOps Further

Implementing CI/CD and continuous deployment

We saw earlier that one of the key DevOps practices is the process of integration and continuous delivery, also called CI/CD. In fact, behind the acronyms of CI/CD, there are three practices:

  • Continuous integration (CI)
  • Continuous delivery (CD)
  • Continuous deployment

What does each of these practices correspond to? What are their prerequisites and best practices? Are they applicable to all?

Let's look in detail at each of these practices, starting with continuous integration.

Continuous integration (CI)

In the following definition given by Martin Fowler, there are three key things mentioned, members of a team, integrate, and as quickly as possible:

"Continuous Integration...