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Implementing Modern DevOps
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Implementing Modern DevOps

by David Gonzalez, Danny Varghese
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Releasing new versions

A few years ago, I used to work in a company where the production rollouts steps were written in a Microsoft Word document command by command along with the explanation:

  • Copy this file there: cp a.tar b.tar
  • Restart the server xyz with the command: sudo service my-server restart

This was in addition to a long list of actions to take to release a new version. This happened because it was a fairly big company that had commoditized its IT department, and even though their business was based on an IT product, they did not embed IT in the core of their business.

As you can see, this is a very risky situation. Even though the developer who created the version and the deployment document was there, someone was deploying a ...

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