What this book covers

Chapter 1, DevOps in the Real World, shows the place of DevOps in the current engineering department of IT companies and how to align resources to maximize delivery potential.

Chapter 2, Cloud Data Centers, compares the different cloud solutions for managing resources (VMs, networks, disks, and so on) on the cloud and on demand.

Chapter 3, Docker, teaches about Docker and some of its internals in order to better understand how containerization technologies work.

Chapter 4, Continuous Integration, talks about continuous integration technologies that can be used to execute tests across your applications as well as many other actions, as we will see in Chapter 8, Release Management – Continuous Delivery.

Chapter 5, Infrastructure as Code, shows how to describe our infrastructure in a way that can be managed as code and apply the SDLC best practices to it in order to ensure its integrity.

Chapter 6, Server Provisioning, shows how to use Ansible to manage the configuration of remote servers in order to facilitate the maintenance of a large number of servers that, even though we are going to focus on Kubernetes, are good to know.

Chapter 7, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes - Clustering Infrastructure, briefly visits Docker Swarm and then points your attention toward Kubernetes, the most modern container orchestration technology, which is used across the biggest corporations in the world, such as Google.

Chapter 8, Release Management – Continuous Delivery, shows how to set up a continuous delivery pipeline on Google Cloud Platform with Kubernetes and Jenkins.

Chapter 9, Monitoring, shows how to monitor our software and servers to be the first ones to know about a potential outage very quickly and fix it (potentially) before impacting our customers.