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High Performance Drupal
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High Performance Drupal

by Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, Nathaniel Catchpole
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
261 pages
7h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9. “DevOps”: Breaking Down Barriers Between Development and Operations

Historically, there has been a strict separation between development and infrastructure. In recent years, the “DevOps” methodology has become very popular, stressing the integration of development and infrastructure operations in order to improve the code deployment process. There are many aspects to DevOps, including close collaboration between development and infrastructure teams, easing the deployment process with automation, and standardizing development and QA environments. This methodology becomes even more important as infrastructure demands increase with new technologies, as development teams move toward rapid-release models (agile/iterative development), and when dealing with distributed teams.

While you may not feel that you need to fully embrace DevOps for your environment, there are still many ideas that stem from DevOps culture that can prove beneficial. For example, ideas that are commonly used in DevOps environments that can help simplify deployments and reduce the chances of regressions when deploying to the production environment include having the ability to track changes to both code and infrastructure and roll back should something not work; maintaining separate (but nearly identical) environments for development, testing, and staging for code and infrastructure changes; and the use of revision control systems and continuous integration systems for code deployment.

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