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Implementing Modern DevOps

By : Danny Varghese, David Gonzalez
Book Image

Implementing Modern DevOps

By: Danny Varghese, David Gonzalez

Overview of this book

This book follows a unique approach to modern DevOps using cutting-edge tools and technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform. This book starts by explaining the organizational alignment that has to happen in every company that wants to implement DevOps in order to be effective, and the use of cloud datacenters in combination with the most advanced DevOps tools to get the best out of a small team of skilled engineers. It also delves into how to use Kubernetes to run your applications in Google Cloud Platform, minimizing the friction and hassle of maintaining a cluster but ensuring its high availability. By the end of this book, you will be able to realign teams in your company and create a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and Docker. With strong monitoring in place, you will also be able to react to adverse events in your system, minimizing downtime and improving the overall up-time and stability of your system.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Traditional CI servers


In this section, we are going to walk through the most traditional CI servers:

  • Bamboo
  • Jenkins

They have been around for quite a while and even though they are heavily used in the enterprise world, they are losing some grasp against the new and more modern CI servers such as Drone or Travis (although Travis has been around for a while, it has been reinvented to work on the cloud).

Bamboo

Bamboo is a proprietary CI server that is developed by Atlassian. Atlassian is a software company that specializes in tools for developers. Products such as JIRA and Bitbucket are created by Atlassian and they are well known in the IT world. Bamboo is their proposal for CI activities, and it is quite popular as it integrates fairly well with their other products.

Let's install it. In order to do that, please visit Bamboo's home page at https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/ and follow the instructions in the quick start guide. As you can see, the installation is quite simple, and after...