Implementing Modern DevOps

Introduction

So far, we have seen a large number of tools that we can use as DevOps engineers in our company to enhance our capabilities. Now we are able to provision servers with Ansible, create Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform, and set up a delivery pipeline for our microservices. We have also dived deep into how Docker works and how we should organize our company to be a successful delivering software.

In this chapter, we are going to take a look at the missing piece of the puzzle: monitoring. Usually overlooked, monitoring is, in my opinion, a key component of a successful DevOps company. Monitoring is the first line of defense against problems. In Chapter 8, Release Management – Continuous Delivery, we talked about how we ...