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Learning DevOps

By : Mikael Krief
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Learning DevOps

By: Mikael Krief

Overview of this book

The implementation of DevOps processes requires the efficient use of various tools, and the choice of these tools is crucial for the sustainability of projects and collaboration between development (Dev) and operations (Ops). This book presents the different patterns and tools that you can use to provision and configure an infrastructure in the cloud. You'll begin by understanding DevOps culture, the application of DevOps in cloud infrastructure, provisioning with Terraform, configuration with Ansible, and image building with Packer. You'll then be taken through source code versioning with Git and the construction of a DevOps CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure Pipelines. This DevOps handbook will also guide you in containerizing and deploying your applications with Docker and Kubernetes. You'll learn how to reduce deployment downtime with blue-green deployment and the feature flags technique, and study DevOps practices for open source projects. Finally, you'll grasp some best practices for reducing the overall application lead time to ensure faster time to market. By the end of this book, you'll have built a solid foundation in DevOps, and developed the skills necessary to enhance a traditional software delivery process using modern software delivery tools and techniques
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
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Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
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Section 3: Containerized Applications with Docker and Kubernetes
12
Section 4: Testing Your Application
16
Section 5: Taking DevOps Further

Building and running a container on a local machine

So far, we have discussed Docker elements, along with an example of a Dockerfile that is used to containerize a web application, so we now have all the elements to run Docker.

The execution of Docker is performed by these different operations:

  • Building a Docker image from a Dockerfile
  • Instantiating a new container locally from this image
  • Testing our locally containerized application

Let's take a deep dive into each operation.

Building a Docker image

To build a Docker image from our previously created Dockerfile that contains the following instructions:

FROM httpd:latest
COPY index.html /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/

We'll go to a Terminal to head into the directory...