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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

Integrating tests

Testing is, in today's world, a major part of the DevOps process, but also of development practices. Indeed, it is possible to have the best DevOps pipeline that automates all delivery phases, but without the integration of tests, it loses almost all its efficiency. For my part, I think that the minimum requirement for a DevOps process is to integrate at least the execution of the unit tests of the application. In addition, these unit tests must be written from the first line of code of the application using testing practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD; https://hackernoon.com/introduction-to-test-driven-development-tdd-61a13bc92d92) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and, in this way, the automatic execution of these tests can be integrated into the CI pipeline.

However, it is important to integrate other types of tests, such as functional tests...