Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

Various approaches to deployment automation

With the advent of application containerization (Docker and similar technologies), modern software provisioning tools (for example, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt), and infrastructure management systems (for example, Terraform and SaltStack) development and operations teams have a variety of ways in which they can organize and manage their code deployments and configuration of remote systems. Each solution has pros and cons, so advanced automation tools should be chosen very wisely with respect to the favored development processes and methodologies.

Fast paced teams that use microservice architecture and deploy code often (maybe even simultaneously in parallel versions) will definitely favor container ...