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DevOps for Web Development

By : Mitesh Soni
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DevOps for Web Development

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

The DevOps culture is growing at a massive rate, as many organizations are adopting it. However, implementing it for web applications is one of the biggest challenges experienced by many developers and admins, which this book will help you overcome using various tools, such as Chef, Docker, and Jenkins. On the basis of the functionality of these tools, the book is divided into three parts. The first part shows you how to use Jenkins 2.0 for Continuous Integration of a sample JEE application. The second part explains the Chef configuration management tool, and provides an overview of Docker containers, resource provisioning in cloud environments using Chef, and Configuration Management in a cloud environment. The third part explores Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Docker, all using Jenkins 2.0. This book combines the skills of both web application deployment and system configuration as each chapter contains one or more practical hands-on projects. You will be exposed to real-world project scenarios that are progressively presented from easy to complex solutions. We will teach you concepts such as hosting web applications, configuring a runtime environment, monitoring and hosting on various cloud platforms, and managing them. This book will show you how to essentially host and manage web applications along with Continuous Integration, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Delivery, and Deployment.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
DevOps for Web Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Overview of Monitoring tools and Techniques


In this section, we will cover Nagios monitoring tool, Azure Web Apps Monitoring, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Nagios

Nagios Core is an open source application written in C and PHP to monitor servers, networks, and infrastructure.

Below are some important features of Nagios:

Nagios XI uses Nagios Core as the back-end and provides an extended interface for monitoring resources. Nagios XI is supported in CentOS and RedHat. Let's have a quick tour of Nagios XI.

Quick start with Nagios

  1. Go to https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/ and download VMware 64 bit virtual machine so we can use the image in VMware workstation. Open the OVF in the VMware workstation:

  2. Importing Nagios OVF will take some time:

  3. Wait for the completion of the process:

  4. Once importing process is completed, click on the Power on this virtual Machine:

  5. Once the virtual machine is ready, login as root with password nagiosxi. Note the URL to access Nagios dashboard:

  6. Open the Nagios...