There has been a recent explosion in tools that allow you
to redefine the delivery of infrastructure and applications, using a
combination of automation and testing to deliver continuous deployment.
DevOps has garnered interest from every quarter, and is rapidly being
recognized as a radical shift, as large as the Agile movement for the
delivery of software.
This book takes a collection of some of the coolest software
available today and shows you how to use it to create impressive changes
to the way you deliver applications and software. It tackles the
plethora of tools that are now available to enable organizations to take
advantage of the automation, monitoring, and configuration management
techniques that define a DevOps-driven infrastructure.
Starting off with the fundamental command-line tools that every
DevOps enthusiast must know, this book will guide you through the
implementation of the Ansible tool to help you facilitate automation and
perform diverse tasks. You will explore how to build hosts
automatically with the creation of Apt mirrors and interactive
pre-seeds, which are of the utmost importance for Ubuntu automation. You
will also delve into the concept of virtualization and creating and
manipulating guests with ESXi. Following this, you will venture into the
application of Docker; learn how to install, run, network, and restore
Docker containers; and also learn how to build containers in Jenkins and
deploy apps using a combination of Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins. You
will also discover how to filter data with Grafana and the usage of
InfluxDB along with unconventional log management. Finally, you will get
acquainted with cloud infrastructure, employing the Heroku and Amazon
AWS platforms.
By tackling real-world issues, this book will guide you through a
huge variety of tools, giving new users the ability to get up and
running and offering advanced users some interesting recipes that may
help with existing issues.
