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Practical DevOps - Second Edition

By : joakim verona
Book Image

Practical DevOps - Second Edition

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 code workflows from testing environments to production environments. It stresses cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations. Practical DevOps begins with a quick refresher on DevOps and continuous delivery and quickly moves on to show you how DevOps affects software architectures. You'll create a sample enterprise Java application that you’'ll continue to work with through the remaining chapters. Following this, you will explore various code storage and build server options. You will then learn how to test your code with a few tools and deploy your test successfully. In addition to this, you will also see how to monitor code for any anomalies and make sure that it runs as expected. Finally, you will discover how to handle logs and keep track of the issues that affect different processes. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with all the tools needed to deploy, integrate, and deliver efficiently with DevOps.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Ganglia

Ganglia is a graphing and monitoring solution for large clusters. It can aggregate information in convenient overview displays.

The word ganglia is the plural form of ganglion, which is a nerve cell cluster in anatomy. The analogy implies that Ganglia can be the sensory nerve cell network in your cluster.

Like Munin, Ganglia also uses RRDs for database storage and graphing, so the graphs will look similar to the previous Munin graphs. Code reuse is a good thing!

Ganglia's start page shows an overview of the available data in graph format. You can drill down in the graphs to get other perspectives:

If you drill down one of the application cluster graphs for CPU load, for example, you get a detailed view of the individual servers in the cluster. You can click on a server node to drill down further.

If you have a large cluster, you can clearly see the attraction of...