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Practical DevOps - Second Edition

By : joakim verona
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Practical DevOps - Second Edition

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 code workflows from testing environments to production environments. It stresses cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations. Practical DevOps begins with a quick refresher on DevOps and continuous delivery and quickly moves on to show you how DevOps affects software architectures. You'll create a sample enterprise Java application that you’'ll continue to work with through the remaining chapters. Following this, you will explore various code storage and build server options. You will then learn how to test your code with a few tools and deploy your test successfully. In addition to this, you will also see how to monitor code for any anomalies and make sure that it runs as expected. Finally, you will discover how to handle logs and keep track of the issues that affect different processes. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with all the tools needed to deploy, integrate, and deliver efficiently with DevOps.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Robustness

While it is desirable that the build server becomes one of the focal points in your CD pipeline, also consider that the process of building and deployment should not come to a standstill in the event of a breakdown of the build server. For this reason, the builds themselves should be as robust as possible and repeatable on any host.

This is fairly easy for some builds, such as Maven builds. Even so, a Maven build can exhibit any number of flaws that makes it non-portable.

A C-based build can be pretty hard to make portable if one is not so fortunate as to have all build dependencies available in the operating system repositories. Still, robustness is usually worth the effort.