What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started–DevOps Concepts, Tools, and Technologies, gives insights into DevOps movement, challenges for developers team, challenges for operations team, challenges faced by organizations, waterfall and agile model, importance of collaboration, cloud computing, reason to go for DevOps, benefits of DevOps, DevOps lifecycle, build automation, continuous integration and its best practices, configuration management, continuous delivery and continuous deployment and its best practices, continuous monitoring, and continuous feedback. It also covers an overview of code repositories, Maven, Jenkins 2.0, Chef, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Nagios, Hygieia DevOps Dashboard, overview of Sample JEE application.
Chapter 2, Continuous Integration with Jenkins 2, describes in details on overview of continuous integration, Jenkins 2.0 installation, Java and Maven configuration in Jenkins, creating and configuring build job for Java application with Maven, Dashboard View plugin, managing nodes, email notifications based on build status, and Jenkins and Sonar integration
Chapter 3, Building the Code and Configuring the Build Pipeline, covers built-in delivery pipelines using a domain-specific language (DSL), Build Pipeline plugin, deploying a WAR file in the web server.
Chapter 4, Installing and Configuring Chef, gives insight on Chef configuration management tool, hosted Chef, installing and configuring Chef workstation, and converging Chef node using Chef workstation.
Chapter 5, Installing and Configuring Docker, covers overview of Docker container, understanding difference between virtual machines and containers, installation and configuration of Docker on CentOS, creating the first Docker container, and managing containers.
Chapter 6, Cloud Provisioning and Configuration Management with Chef, gives insight into Chef and cloud provisioning, installing knife plugins for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and creating and configuring virtual machine in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Chapter 7, Deploying Application in AWS, Azure, and Docker, covers prerequisites—to deploy application on Remote Server, use tomcat manager app, deploying application in Tomcat Docker container, deploying application in AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and deploying application in Microsoft Azure web apps.
Chapter 8, Monitoring Infrastructure and Applications, provides overview of monitoring, Nagios monitoring tool and quick start on it, installation of Nagios, configuring monitoring of AWS EC2 instance, AWS Elastic Beanstalk monitoring, Microsoft Azure web app service monitoring, Microsoft Azure application insights, and monitoring web application and Tomcat server with New Relic.
Chapter 9, Orchestrating Application Deployment, describes in detail how to orchestrate different build jobs for continuous integration, configuration management, continuous delivery and so on. It will cover creating parameterized build jobs for end to end automation, configuring Build Pipeline for Orchestration of Build Job, executing Build Pipeline for Application Deployment Automation, Steps for Deployment in Amazon Elastic Beanstalk (Platform as a Service), Steps for Deployment in Microsoft Azure Web Apps (Platform as a Service), steps to implement end to end automation in Visual Studio Team Server and TFS online for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, and Steps for Deployment in Docker containers. It also gives a brief introduction on Hygieia—DevOps Dashboard and how to run it.
