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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 12: Securing the Deployment Pipeline

In the previous chapters, we've looked at continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment/delivery (CD). Both concepts, and the tooling surrounding them, help us deliver better software faster. However, one of the most critical aspects of technology is security. Though security was not considered in DevOps' initial days, with the advent of DevSecOps, modern DevOps now places a great emphasis on security. In this chapter, we'll try to understand concepts surrounding container applications' security and how we can apply them within the realms of CI and CD.

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

  • Securing CI/CD pipelines
  • Managing secrets
  • Container vulnerability scanning
  • Binary authorization
  • Security of modern DevOps pipelines