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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
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Section 4: Testing Your Application
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Section 5: Taking DevOps Further

Using an open source framework for feature flags

As we've seen, there are a large number of open source tools or frameworks that allow us to use feature flags in our applications.

In this section, we will look at an example of implementing feature flags within a .NET (Core) application using a simple framework called RimDev.FeatureFlags.
RimDev.FeatureFlags is a framework written in .NET that's free and open source (https://github.com/ritterim/RimDev.FeatureFlags), and is packaged and distributed via a NuGet package. It can be found here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/RimDev.AspNetCore.FeatureFlags.

To store the feature flag's data, RimDev.FeatureFlags uses a database that must be created beforehand. The advantage of RimDev.FeatureFlags is that, once implemented in our application, it provides a web user interface that allows us to enable or disable feature flags...