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Practical DevOps

By : joakim verona
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Practical DevOps

By: joakim verona

Overview of this book

DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. DevOps encompasses all the flows from code through testing environments to production environments. It stresses the cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations. After a quick refresher to DevOps and continuous delivery, we quickly move on to looking at how DevOps affects architecture. You'll create a sample enterprise Java application that you’ll continue to work with through the remaining chapters. Following this, we explore various code storage and build server options. You will then learn how to perform code testing with a few tools and deploy your test successfully. Next, you will learn how to monitor code for any anomalies and make sure it’s running properly. Finally, you will discover how to handle logs and keep track of the issues that affect processes
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Practical DevOps
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The host server


The build server is usually a pretty important machine for the organization. Building software is processor as well as memory and disk intensive. Builds shouldn't take too long, so you will need a server with good specifications for the build server—with lots of disk space, processor cores, and RAM.

The build server also has a kind of social aspect: it is here that the code of many different people and roles integrates properly for the first time. This aspect grows in importance if the servers are fast enough. Machines are cheaper than people, so don't let this particular machine be the area you save money on.