Summary
In this final chapter, we learned about the emerging field of the Internet of Things and how it affects DevOps. Apart from an overview of the IoT, we also made a hardware device that connects to a build server and presents a build status.
The idea of going from the abstract to the concrete with practical examples and then back again to the abstract has been a running theme in this book.
In Chapter 1, Introduction to DevOps and Continuous Delivery, we learned about the background of DevOps and its origin in the world of Agile development.
In Chapter 2, A View from Orbit, we studied different aspects of a Continuous Delivery pipeline.
Chapter 3, How DevOps Affects Architecture, delved into the field of software architecture and how the ideas of DevOps might affect it.
In Chapter 4, Everything is Code, we explored how a development organization can choose to handle its vital asset—source code.
Chapter 5, Building the Code, introduced the concept of build systems, such as Make and...