Modern DevOps in Practice

Modern DevOps in Practice

by Cory W. Cordell
Released March 2019
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781789138030

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Video description

If you’re facing issue of decreased frequency of deployment, high new releases failure rate and longer lead time between fixes than modern DevOps is the answer for your problems. DevOps looks at software development in a whole new way. Let’s take advantage of DevOps to overcome day-to-day IT infrastructure challenges in a more efficient and effective manner.

Modern DevOps in Practice will introduce you to modern Development Operations (DevOps), how to utilize it in your development environment work with tools (Terraform and Azure DevOps). After this course you’ll be able to bring more automation and standardization to the development process, human errors can be significantly reduced and it will be best practices more efficiently shared across teams. Continuous delivery will help you save time setting up and fixing your working environments. Additionally you will learn about the fundamental principles of DevOps and how to transform your team into one that follows the core of DevOps.

By the end of this course you will feel comfortable with what DevOps learn how to utilize modern day tools to better ship code and provide high availability environments.

What You Will Learn

  • DevOps concepts, design patterns, developing strategy, and methodologies.
  • Explore popular tools available for continuous integration, delivery and deployment.
  • Use terraform to automate your infrastructure.
  • Containerization using Docker.
  • Container orchestration using AKS (Kubernetes).
  • Kubernetes and KubeCtl basics.
  • Create build configurations to address automation, continuous deployment, containers, and monitoring.
  • Integrate a Dockerized app with DevOps style automated workflows.
  • Scripting using Bash and Powershell
  • Custom tools and helpers using GoLang.
  • Additional infrastructure and services (vault, container registry, git) to support the pipeline.
  • Build a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipeline using Azure DevOps.
  • Kubernetes, application, and VM monitoring and logging.

Audience

This video targets system administrators, developers, and IT professionals who would like to employ DevOps techniques and best practices to manage IT infrastructures or would like to acquire the skills needed to work in DevOps teams.

About The Author

Cory W. Cordell: Cory W. Cordell is a focused technologist that has a great passion for Software Engineering and DevOps. He believes that the application of DevOps principles are essential in staying competitive in today's technologically sophisticated market.

Table of contents

  1. Chapter 1 : Introduction and Setup
    1. The Course Overview
    2. Tools and Setup
  2. Chapter 2 : Introduction to DevOpsPrinciples
    1. What Is DevOps?
    2. History
    3. Context
    4. People
    5. Philosophy
  3. Chapter 3 : Introduction to DevOps
    1. Overview
    2. Providers
    3. Azure
    4. Azure Fundamentals
    5. Azure Resources
    6. Create a Virtual Machine
    7. Azure Permissions and Key Vault
    8. Azure Portal Alternates
    9. Azure REST API
    10. Azure REST API and Postman
    11. Azure CLI – Part One
    12. Azure CLI – Part Two
  4. Chapter 4 : Configuration as Code and Container Orchestration
    1. Overview
    2. Container Orchestration Tools
    3. Docker – Part One
    4. Docker – Part Two
    5. Docker – Part Three
    6. Kubernetes – Part One
    7. Kubernetes – Part Two
  5. Chapter 5 : Infrastructure as Code
    1. Overview – Infrastructure as Code
    2. Languages and Applications
    3. Terraform Installation
    4. Terraform Provider
    5. Terraform Variables
    6. Create Resource Group
    7. Create Key Vault
  6. Chapter 6 : Automation, Pipeline Orchestration, and CI/CD
    1. Overview of Pipeline
    2. Pipeline Orchestration Tools
    3. Azure DevOps – Part One
    4. Azure DevOps – Part Two
    5. Console versus YAML Configuration
  7. Chapter 7 : Monitoring and Logging
    1. Overview
    2. Tools
  8. Chapter 8 : Scripting Automation and Custom Tools
    1. Overview - Scripting Automation and Custom Tools
    2. Scripting – Part 1
    3. Scripting – Part 2
    4. Custom Tools
  9. Chapter 9 : Course Project
    1. Overview – Course Project
    2. Azure DevOps Project Creation
    3. Setup the Teams and Planning Boards
    4. Setup Repositories
    5. Set Branch Policies and Defaults
    6. Create Azure Resources - Part One
    7. Create Azure Resources - Part Two
    8. Create Azure Resources - Part Three
    9. Secrets and Variables
    10. CI Build Definitions
    11. CD Release Definitions – Part 1
    12. CD Release Definitions – Part 2
    13. CD Release Definitions – Part 3
    14. Monitoring

Product information

  • Title: Modern DevOps in Practice
  • Author(s): Cory W. Cordell
  • Release date: March 2019
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781789138030