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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at one of the most important topics in DevOps: the CI/CD process. We started with a presentation of the principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery. Then, we focused on package managers, looking at NuGet, npm, Nexus, and Azure Artifacts.

Finally, we saw how to implement and execute an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using three different tools: Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, and GitLab CI. For each of them, we looked at the archiving of the application source code and the creation of the pipeline and its execution.

After reading this chapter, we should be able to create a pipeline for continuous integration and delivery with source code management as the source. In addition, we will be able to choose and use a package manager to centralize and distribute our packages.

In the next chapter, we will talk about Docker and the containerization...