Chapter 1. Introduction to DevOps with OpenShift
This book provides a practical guide for using OpenShift as an enablement technology for DevOps. OpenShift’s combination of container management platform with natively container-aware automation can bring those Developer and Operations constituencies together in ways not previously possible. This enables software work products to present themselves in a standardized form to your preferred continuous integration and delivery tool chains.
Container awareness makes it possible to leverage deployment strategies and quality of service characteristics honored by the container management platform and underlying orchestration engine. We can start thinking in terms of containers-as-code rather than infrastructure-as-code.
So to get started, let’s review some key DevOps concepts as interpreted with a container-centric viewpoint.
DevOps
DevOps is concerned with aligning the constituents in the software delivery process to a common goal of value delivery—and it’s not just Developers and Operators, but InfoSec and Quality Assurance functions and more. Recognize that wealth is created when the work product is valued by actors external to the production system. Value delivery outcomes are measured by metrics tied to production delivery velocity, quality, and waste. DevOps emphasizes behavioral- or cultural-related changes such as those which encourage teaming, inclusion, feedback, and experimentation. Technological interventions such as automation ...
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