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Learning DevOps

You're reading from   Learning DevOps The complete guide to accelerate collaboration with Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform and Azure DevOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642730
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code FREE CHAPTER
2. DevOps Culture and Practices 3. Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform 4. Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure 5. Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer 6. Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
7. Managing Your Source Code with Git 8. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery 9. Section 3: Containerized Applications with Docker and Kubernetes
10. Containerizing Your Application with Docker 11. Managing Containers Effectively with Kubernetes 12. Section 4: Testing Your Application
13. Testing APIs with Postman 14. Static Code Analysis with SonarQube 15. Security and Performance Tests 16. Section 5: Taking DevOps Further
17. Security in the DevOps Process with DevSecOps 18. Reducing Deployment Downtime 19. DevOps for Open Source Projects 20. DevOps Best Practices 21. Assessments 22. 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.getpostman.com/ and clicking on the SIGN IN button. Then, in the form, click on the Create Account link, as shown in the following screenshot:

Then, you...

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