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DevOps for Serverless Applications

By : Shashikant Bangera
Book Image

DevOps for Serverless Applications

By: Shashikant Bangera

Overview of this book

Serverless applications are becoming very popular among developers and are generating a buzz in the tech market. Many organizations struggle with the effective implementation of DevOps with serverless applications. DevOps for Serverless Applications takes you through different DevOps-related scenarios to give you a solid foundation in serverless deployment. You will start by understanding the concepts of serverless architecture and development, and why they are important. Then, you will get to grips with the DevOps ideology and gain an understanding of how it fits into the Serverless Framework. You'll cover deployment framework building and deployment with CI and CD pipelines for serverless applications. You will also explore log management and issue reporting in the serverless environment. In the concluding chapters, you will learn important security tips and best practices for secure pipeline management. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to effectively build a complete CI and CD delivery pipeline with log management for serverless applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Integrating DevOps with IBM OpenWhisk
Index

Important aspects of DevOps


The two important tenets of DevOps are automation and process. We have to automate every bit of development from the nonproduction environment to production, and at the same time we have to maintain continuous feedback, with information moving back and forth, while also logging everything. Let's look at some best practices of how to do this.

Collaboration and tools strategy

The DevOps team needs to come up with a common tool strategy across the organization, and they should collaborate with different teams—such as development, testing, and infrastructure—and agree upon the business objectives of DevOps. There should be seamless collaboration and integration between the teams. The objective is to automate everything, so the ideal goal should be one-click deployment from development to production, with very minimal human intervention. 

Agile development

There are many Agile methodologies available. Scrum, XP, and Kanban are a few of the more popular ones. You can use...