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Practical DevOps, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical DevOps, Second Edition Implement DevOps in your organization by effectively building, deploying, testing, and monitoring code

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788392570
Length 250 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing DevOps and Continuous Delivery FREE CHAPTER 2. A View from Orbit 3. How DevOps Affects Architecture 4. Everything is Code 5. Building the Code 6. Testing the Code 7. Deploying the Code 8. Monitoring the Code 9. Issue Tracking 10. The Internet of Things and DevOps 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Alternative build servers

While Jenkins appears to be pretty dominant in the build server scene in my experience, it is by no means alone. Travis CI is a hosted solution that is popular among open source projects. Buildbot is a build server that is written in, and configurable with, Python. The Go server is another one, from ThoughtWorks. Bamboo is an offering from Atlassian. GitLab also supports build server functionality.

Do shop around before deciding on which build server works best for you.

When evaluating different solutions, be aware of attempts at vendor lock-in. Also keep in mind that the build server does not in any way replace the need for builds that are well behaved locally on a developer's machine.

Also, as a common rule of thumb, see if the tool is configurable via configuration files. While management tends to be impressed by graphical configuration, developers...

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