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Learning DevOps

You're reading from   Learning DevOps A comprehensive guide to accelerating DevOps culture adoption with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Jenkins

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818964
Length 560 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
2. Chapter 1: The DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code Practices FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform 4. Chapter 3: Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure 5. Chapter 4: Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer 6. Chapter 5: Authoring the Development Environment with Vagrant 7. Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
8. Chapter 6: Managing Your Source Code with Git 9. Chapter 7: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery 10. Chapter 8: Deploying Infrastructure as Code with CI/CD Pipelines 11. Section 3: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
12. Chapter 9: Containerizing Your Application with Docker 13. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Effectively with Kubernetes 14. Section 4: Testing Your Application
15. Chapter 11: Testing APIs with Postman 16. Chapter 12: Static Code Analysis with SonarQube 17. Chapter 13: Security and Performance Tests 18. Section 5: Taking DevOps Further/More on DevOps
19. Chapter 14: Security in the DevOps Process with DevSecOps 20. Chapter 15: Reducing Deployment Downtime 21. Chapter 16: DevOps for Open Source Projects 22. Chapter 17: DevOps Best Practices 23. Assessments 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a Postman collection with requests

Postman is a free client tool in a graphical format that can be installed on any type of OS. Its role is to test APIs through requests, which we will organize into collections. It also allows us to dynamize API tests through the use of variables and the implementation of environments. Postman is famous for its ease of use, but also for the advanced features that it offers.

In this section, we will learn how to create and install a Postman account, then we will create a collection that will serve as a folder to organize our requests, and finally, we will create a request that will test a demo API.

Before we use Postman, we will need to create a Postman account by going to https://www.postman.com/ and clicking on the Sign Up for Free button. In the form, click on the Create Account link, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.1 – Postman signup

Figure 11.1 – Postman signup

Now, you can either create a Postman account...

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