You're reading from Atlassian DevOps Toolchain Cookbook Recipes for building, automating, and managing applications with Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835463789

Length 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Atlassian Confluence

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (4):

Rodney Nissen

Robert Wen

Alex Ortiz

Edward Gaile

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Beginning the Cycle FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to DevOps and the Atlassian Ecosystem

3. Chapter 2: Discovering Customer Needs with Jira Product Discovery

4. Chapter 3: Planning and Documentation with Confluence

5. Part 2: Development to Deployment

6. Chapter 4: Enabling Connections for Design, Source Control, and Continuous Integration

7. Chapter 5: Understanding Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines

8. Chapter 6: Extending and Executing Bitbucket Pipelines

9. Chapter 7: Leveraging Test Case Management and Security Tools for DevSecOps

10. Chapter 8: Deploying with Bitbucket Pipelines

11. Chapter 9: Leveraging Docker and Kubernetes for Advanced Configurations

12. Part 3: Maintaining Operations

13. Chapter 10: Collaborating with Operations through Continuous Deployment and Observability

14. Chapter 11: Monitoring Component Activity and Metrics Through CheckOps in Compass

15. Chapter 12: Escalate Using Opsgenie Alerts

16. Part 4: Putting It into Practice

17. Chapter 13: Putting It All Together with a Real-World Example

18. Chapter 14: Appendix – Key Takeaways and the Future of Atlassian DevOps Tools

19. Index

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Getting ready

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Main: The main branch should be the most stable branch in your repository. This means that the code in the main branch should be the most complete and...