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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)
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Section 1: Container Fundamentals and Best Practices
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Section 2: Delivering Containers
15
Section 3: Modern DevOps with GitOps

Security of modern DevOps pipelines

Tooling is not the only thing that will help you in your DevSecOps journey. Here are some helpful tips that can help you address security risks and have a more secure culture within your organization.

Adopt a DevSecOps culture

Adopting a DevSecOps approach is critical in implementing modern DevOps. Therefore, it is vital to embed security within an organization's culture. You can achieve that by implementing effective communication and collaboration between the development, operations, and security teams. While most organizations have a security policy, it mustn't be followed just to comply with rules and regulations. Instead, employees should cross-skill and upskill themselves to adopt a DevSecOps approach and embed security early on during development. Security teams need to learn to write code and work with APIs, while developers need to understand security and use automation to achieve this.

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