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DevOps: Continuous Delivery, Integration, and Deployment with DevOps

By : Sricharan Vadapalli
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DevOps: Continuous Delivery, Integration, and Deployment with DevOps

By: Sricharan Vadapalli

Overview of this book

DevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aim sat software development and operation. Continuous integration is a cornerstone technique of DevOps that merges software code updates from developers into a shared central mainline. This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how toper form continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. You will explore DevOps process maturity frameworks and progression models with checklist templates for each phase of DevOps. You will also be familiar with agile terminology, methodology, and the benefits accrued by an organization by adopting it. You will also get acquainted with popular tools such as Git, Jenkins ,Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on.You will learn configuration, automation, and the implementation of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible. This book is ideal for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Hands-on DevOps by Sricharan Vadapalli.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Installation of Gerrit


Let's perform the following steps to install Gerrit:

  1. Download Gerrit from https://www.gerritcodereview.com/.

  2. Follow the installation instructions as per the platform option and access Gerrit on port 8080 as follows to create users and projects:

  3. Configure in Jenkins under Manage Plugins for Gerrit:

Version control tools listed in the Lesson 2, DevOps Framework, for example Gerrit the web-based code review interface, allow reviewing changes online to push changes from any Git client and then auto-merging them with the master; it can also be configured as a remote Git repository.

Gerrit configuration includes user creation, Secure Shell (SSH) set up to exchange data with a Gerrit server. The configuration file /etc/gerrit.config has extensive parameters you need to set as per configuration requirements.