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DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By : Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria
Book Image

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By: Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria

Overview of this book

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift features many different real-world practices - some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related - to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering. Containers and container-centric application lifecycle management are now an industry standard, and OpenShift has a leading position in a flourishing market of enterprise Kubernetes-based product offerings. DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides a roadmap for building empowered product teams within your organization. This guide brings together lean, agile, design thinking, DevOps, culture, facilitation, and hands-on technical enablement all in one book. Through a combination of real-world stories, a practical case study, facilitation guides, and technical implementation details, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides tools and techniques to build a DevOps culture within your organization on Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Practices Make Perfect
6
Section 2: Establishing the Foundation
11
Section 3: Discover It
15
Section 4: Prioritize It
17
Section 5: Deliver It
20
Section 6: Build It, Run It, Own It
24
Section 7: Improve It, Sustain It
27
Index
Appendix B – Additional Learning Resources

Service Mesh

Service mesh functionality has been one of the largest additions/extensions to Kubernetes in its short history. There's a lot of debate around the additional complexity of using a service mesh and whether all the features are even required.

For the purposes of this book, we're going to focus on the service mesh provided out of the box within OpenShift, which is based on the open-source Istio project. There are other implementations, such as Linkerd, SuperGloo, and Traefik, out there that are excellent and offer similar functionality to Istio.

The OpenShift service mesh provides the following features out of the box:

  • Security: Authentication and authorization, mutual TLS (encryption), policies
  • Traffic management: Resiliency features, virtual services, policies, fault injection
  • Observability: Service metrics, call tracing, access logs

Why Service Mesh?

We previously talked about resiliency and how patterns like circuit breakers can...