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Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide

By : Paul Swartout
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Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide

By: Paul Swartout

Overview of this book

<p>For a while now, there has been a buzz around the IT industry regarding continuous delivery and DevOps. This book will provide you with some background information into these two new kids on the block and how they can help you to optimize, streamline and improve the way you work and ultimately how you ship quality software. <br /><br />"Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide" will provide you with a clear and concise insight into what continuous delivery and DevOps are all about, how to go about preparing for and implementing them and what quantifiable business value they bring. Included within are some tricks and trips based upon real world experiences which may help you reduce the time and effort needed if you were to go it alone.<br /><br />In this book, you will be taken through a journey of discovery starting with real world successes, how you should prepare, plan for and implement CD and DevOps and what the pitfalls are along the way<br /><br />We will start looking at the evolution of a typical software house from fledgling start-up through the growing pains that comes with global success to a best of both worlds. We’ll delve into the many aspects of what they did to complete this evolution covering topics such as how they realized there was a problem to solve, how they set about preparing for and implementing continuous delivery and DevOps and what tools, techniques and approaches they used along the way – some technical and some not so. If you work within an organization that delivers software, you will be able to plot where you are on the evolutionary scale, understand where you need to do to be more effective, cherry pick the tools, techniques and approaches that work for you and realize the best of both worlds.<br /><br />"Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide" will provide you with the background and information you need to realize the benefits within your own business</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Acknowledgement

Firstly I would like to say a big thank you to my darling wife Jane, who has had to put up with a husband who for the past few months has done little more than spend every spare moment staring at a computer screen typing lots of things—which eventually turned into this book.

Thank you to my daughter Harriet for her proof reading skills—I knew that education would come in handy one day.

Next is my good friend and colleague John Clapham whose level headed approach and consistent vision helped to make the implementation of CD and DevOps within Nokia entertainment the success it was. Without that success there would be little to write about.

I would also like to thank Deon Fourie—one of the best bosses out there—and my CD team for their faith and commitment to delivering the CD and DevOps vision. Without you this body of work would be rather dry and many pages lighter.

A big thank you to John Fisher for allowing me to include his transition curve within the book and to Patrick Debois for his support and never ending enthusiasm and drive to bring DevOps to the masses.