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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)

Nagios Monitoring Tool for Infrastructure


There are multiple variants of the Nagios open source tool for monitoring mission-critical infrastructure components specific to each segment on any operating system:

  • Network monitoring software

  • Network traffic monitoring

  • Server (Linux, Windows) monitoring

  • Application monitoring tools

  • Web application monitoring

  • Monitoring core engine and a basic web interface

  • Nagios core plugins package with add-ons

  • Nagios log server security threats with audit system

Nagios facilitates monitoring of the network for problems such as overloaded data links, network connections, monitoring routers, switches, problems caused by overloaded of crashed servers, and so on.

Nagios can deliver the metric results in a variety of visual representations and reports to monitor availability, uptime, and response time of every node on the network with both agent-based and agent-less monitoring.

Effective application monitoring with Nagios enables organizations to quickly detect applications...