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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

Understanding the Git process and GitFlow pattern

So far, we have seen the fundamentals of a very powerful VCS, which is Git, with its installation, configuration, and some of its most common command lines. In this section, we will put all of this into practice with a case study that will show which Git process to apply throughout the life cycle of a project.

In this case study, for remote repositories, we will use Azure Repos (one of the services of the Azure DevOps services), which is a free Git cloud platform that can be used for personal or even business projects. To learn more about Azure DevOps, consult the documentation here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/. We will often talk about it in this book.

Let's first look at how collaboration with Git is constituted, then we will see how to isolate the code using branches.

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