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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

Automating everything

When you want to implement DevOps practices within a company, it is important to remember the purpose of the DevOps culture: it delivers new releases of an application faster, in shorter cycles.

To do this, the first good practice to apply is to automate all tasks that deploy, test, and secure the application and its infrastructure. Indeed, when a task is done manually, there is a high risk of error in its execution. The fact that these tasks are performed manually increases the deployment cycles of applications.

In addition, once these tasks are automated in scripts, they can be easily integrated and executed in CI/CD pipelines. Another advantage of automation is that developers and the operational team can spend more time and focus their work on the functionality of their business.

It is also important to start the automation of the delivery process at...

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