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Repeatability, Reliability, and Scalability through GitOps

By : Bryan Feuling
Book Image

Repeatability, Reliability, and Scalability through GitOps

By: Bryan Feuling

Overview of this book

The world of software delivery and deployment has come a long way in the last few decades. From waterfall methods to Agile practices, every company that develops its own software has to overcome various challenges in delivery and deployment to meet customer and market demands. This book will guide you through common industry practices for software delivery and deployment. Throughout the book, you'll follow the journey of a DevOps team that matures their software release process from quarterly deployments to continuous delivery using GitOps. With the help of hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you'll build your knowledge of GitOps basics, different types of GitOps practices, and how to decide which GitOps practice is the best for your company. As you progress, you'll cover everything from building declarative language files to the pitfalls in performing continuous deployment with GitOps. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with the fundamentals of delivery and deployment, the different schools of GitOps, and how to best leverage GitOps in your teams.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of GitOps
5
Section 2: GitOps Types, Benefits, and Drawbacks
10
Section 3: Hands-On Practical GitOps

Chapter 12: What's Next?

This book has covered many different topics in the DevOps space. Although there has been a particular focus on GitOps practices, the overall concepts are geared toward the three main automation requirements of reliability, repeatability, and scalability. The best way to achieve the three automation requirements is through the practice of converting all operations into declarative code, leveraging a templating language, and enforcing the usage of a code repository with versioning capabilities. The goal of this last chapter is to provide an overview of some main concepts from the book and what the best next steps are.

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

  • Delivery versus deployment
  • GitOps: what and why
  • Continuous deployment GitOps: originalist and purist
  • Continuous delivery GitOps: verified
  • Best practices first, then GitOps