Practical DevOps

Harness the power of DevOps to boost your skill set and make your IT organization perform better

Key Features

• Get to know the background of DevOps so you understand the collaboration between different aspects of an IT organization and a software developer
• Improve your organization's performance to ensure smooth production of software and services
• Deploy top-quality software and ensure software maintenance and release management with this practical guide

Book Description

What you will learn

• Appreciate the merits of DevOps and continuous delivery and see how DevOps supports the agile process
• Understand how all the systems fit together to form a larger whole
• Set up and familiarize yourself with all the tools you need to be efficient with DevOps
• Design an application that is suitable for continuous deployment systems with Devops in mind
• Store and manage your code effectively using different options such as Git, Gerrit, and Gitlab
• Configure a job to build a sample CRUD application
• Test the code using automated regression testing with Jenkins Selenium
• Deploy your code using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Palletops, Chef, and Vagrant
• Monitor the health of your code with Nagios, Munin, and Graphite
• Explore the workings of Trac—a tool used for issue tracking

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at developers and system administrators who wish to take on larger responsibilities and understand how the infrastructure that builds today's enterprises works. This book is also great for operations personnel who would like to better support developers. You do not need to have any previous knowledge of DevOps.