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Practical DevOps

By : joakim verona
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Practical DevOps

By: joakim verona

Overview of this book

DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. DevOps encompasses all the flows from code through testing environments to production environments. It stresses the cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations. After a quick refresher to DevOps and continuous delivery, we quickly move on to looking at how DevOps affects architecture. You'll create a sample enterprise Java application that you’ll continue to work with through the remaining chapters. Following this, we explore various code storage and build server options. You will then learn how to perform code testing with a few tools and deploy your test successfully. Next, you will learn how to monitor code for any anomalies and make sure it’s running properly. Finally, you will discover how to handle logs and keep track of the issues that affect processes
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Practical DevOps
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Collating quality measures


A useful thing that a build server can do is the collation of software quality metrics. Jenkins has some support for this out of the box. Java unit tests are executed and can be visualized directly on the job page.

Another more advanced option is using the Sonar code quality visualizer, which is shown in the following screenshot. Sonar tests are run during the build phase and propagated to the Sonar server, where they are stored and visualized.

A Sonar server can be a great way for a development team to see the fruits of their efforts at improving the code base.

The drawback of implementing a Sonar server is that it sometimes slows down the builds. The recommendation is to perform the Sonar builds in your nightly builds, once a day.