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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

Securing CI/CD pipelines

Security has always been the top priority for most organizations, and it also forms a significant part of a mature organization's investment. However, security comes with its own costs. Most organizations have cybersecurity teams that audit their code regularly and give feedback. However, that process is generally slow and happens when most of the code is already developed and difficult to modify.

Therefore, embedding security at the early stages of development is an important goal for modern DevOps. Embedding security with DevOps has led to the concept of DevSecOps, where developers, cybersecurity experts, and operations teams work together toward a common goal of creating better and more secure software faster.

There are many ways of embedding security within the software supply chain. Some of these might include static code analysis, security testing, and applying organization-specific security policies within the process, but the idea of security...