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Modern DevOps Practices

By : Gaurav Agarwal
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Modern DevOps Practices

By: Gaurav Agarwal

Overview of this book

Containers have entirely changed how developers and end-users see applications as a whole. With this book, you'll learn all about containers, their architecture and benefits, and how to implement them within your development lifecycle. You'll discover how you can transition from the traditional world of virtual machines and adopt modern ways of using DevOps to ship a package of software continuously. Starting with a quick refresher on the core concepts of containers, you'll move on to study the architectural concepts to implement modern ways of application development. You'll cover topics around Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, and other similar tools that will help you to build a base. As you advance, the book covers the core elements of cloud integration (AWS ECS, GKE, and other CaaS services), continuous integration, and continuous delivery (GitHub actions, Jenkins, and Spinnaker) to help you understand the essence of container management and delivery. The later sections of the book will take you through container pipeline security and GitOps (Flux CD and Terraform). By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have learned best practices for automating your development lifecycle and making the most of containers, infrastructure automation, and CaaS, and be ready to develop applications using modern tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Container Fundamentals and Best Practices
7
Section 2: Delivering Containers
15
Section 3: Modern DevOps with GitOps

Chapter 10: Continuous Integration

In the last chapters, we've looked at individual tools that will help us to implement several aspects of modern DevOps. Now, it's time to look at how we can bring all of the tools and concepts we've learned together and use them to create a continuous integration pipeline. We will look at some of the popular open source and SaaS-based tools that can get us started quickly with Continuous Integration (CI). We will begin with GitHub Actions, Jenkins with Kaniko, and some cloud-specific SaaS tools, such as AWS Code Commit and Code Build. Finally, we will cover some best practices related to build performance.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • The importance of automation
  • Building a CI pipeline with GitHub Actions
  • Scalable Jenkins on Kubernetes with Kaniko
  • Automating a build with triggers
  • CI with AWS Code Commit and Code Build
  • Build performance best practices