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Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

By : Paul Swartout
Book Image

Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

By: Paul Swartout

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps have been in the spotlight in tech media, at conferences, and in boardrooms alike. Many articles and books have been written covering the technical aspects of CD and DevOps, yet the vast majority of the industry doesn’t fully understand what they actually are and how, if adopted correctly they can help organizations drastically change the way they deliver value. This book will help you figure out how CD and DevOps can help you to optimize, streamline, and improve the way you work to consistently deliver quality software. In this edition, you’ll be introduced to modern tools, techniques, and examples to help you understand what the adoption of CD and DevOps entails. It provides clear and concise insights in to what CD and DevOps are all about, how to go about both preparing for and adopting them, and what quantifiable value they bring. You will be guided through the various stages of adoption, the impact they will have on your business and those working within it, how to overcome common problems, and what to do once CD and DevOps have become truly embedded. Included within this book are some real-world examples, tricks, and tips that will help ease the adoption process and allow you to fully utilize the power of CD and DevOps
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

CD and DevOps Beyond Traditional Software Delivery

CD and DevOps are normally associated with delivering web server-based solutions—that's not to say it is exclusively the case, however; this is the norm. As you have learned, CD and DevOps are not specifically associated with tools or techniques. A true adoption of CD and DevOps is based on enhancing culture, behaviors, and ways of working to smoothen the flow of changes so that value can be delivered continuously. This means that they don't need to be constrained to the usual flavor of software delivery. Once your business has adopted CD and DevOps as the way we do things around here, you could, should, and can apply the same approaches to solve other business problems.

The most obvious would be to apply the CD and DevOps approach to something that is normally painful for most businesses that delivery software...