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DevOps: Continuous Delivery, Integration, and Deployment with DevOps

By : Sricharan Vadapalli
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DevOps: Continuous Delivery, Integration, and Deployment with DevOps

By: Sricharan Vadapalli

Overview of this book

DevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aim sat software development and operation. Continuous integration is a cornerstone technique of DevOps that merges software code updates from developers into a shared central mainline. This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how toper form continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. You will explore DevOps process maturity frameworks and progression models with checklist templates for each phase of DevOps. You will also be familiar with agile terminology, methodology, and the benefits accrued by an organization by adopting it. You will also get acquainted with popular tools such as Git, Jenkins ,Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on.You will learn configuration, automation, and the implementation of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible. This book is ideal for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Hands-on DevOps by Sricharan Vadapalli.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Chef


Chef is one of the prominent configuration management and infrastructure automation platforms; it provides a full suite of enterprise capabilities such as workflow, visibility, and compliance. It enables continuous deployments for both infrastructure and applications from development to production. Infrastructure configuration automation as code is written, tested, deployed, and managed by Chef across networks such as the cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments with comprehensive 24 x 7 support services. Examples are client systems, security patches can be updated from master server by writing configurations as a set of instructions and executed on multiple nodes simultaneously.

The Chef platform as shown in the following figure, supports multiple environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, Google Cloud, and so on. Platforms such as Windows, Linux, VMware, and so on, are available. All the popular continuous integration tools such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitHub...