Implementing Modern DevOps: Enabling IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter

Help your organization join the DevOps revolution

About This Book • Helps you skill up your DevOps knowledge without a strong set of prerequisites

• Deliver continuously improved software by showcasing the most advanced tools and techniques

• Acquire a deeper insight into implementing DevOps in your organization and deliver results from day 1

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for engineers and companies that want to learn the minimum set of required technologies and processes to be successful in the DevOps world.

This book also targets system administrators, developers, and IT professionals who would like to employ DevOps techniques and best practices to manage IT infrastructures or would like to acquire the necessary skills needed to work in DevOps teams.

What You Will Learn • Master development best practices.

• Understand how the Agile Delivery Methodology helps you ensure accuracy and quality.

• Analyze branching strategies such as branch creation, merging, and synchronization.

• Learn to automate builds to deploy and deliver code faster and more often

• Explore testing frameworks and how to automate testing

• Learn to put specific metrics in place to measure ROI of DevOps and monitor logs and events in a system

In Detail

This book follows a unique approach to modern DevOps using cutting-edge tools and technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform.

This book starts by explaining the organizational alignment that has to happen in every company that wants to implement DevOps in order to be effective, and the use of cloud datacenters in combination with the most advanced DevOps tools to get the best out of a small team of skilled engineers. It also delves into how to use Kubernetes to run your applications in Google Cloud Platform, minimizing the friction and hassle of maintaining a cluster but ensuring its high availability.

By the end of this book, you will be able to realign teams in your company and create a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and Docker. With strong monitoring in place, you will also be able to react to adverse events in your system, minimizing downtime and improving the overall up-time and stability of your system.

Style and approach

This book takes a step-by-step practical approach to the implementation of DevOps. This book will teach you how to enable IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter through a unique approach using Code-Build-Test-Release-Configure-Monitor (CBTRCM).

© 2017 Packt Publishing (Ebook): 9781786464002

Release date

Ebook: October 4, 2017