Who this book is for

The book is aimed at IT developers and operations, administrators who want to quickly learn and implement the DevOps culture in their organization. This book is specially aimed at developers, technical leads, testers, and operational professionals, who are the target readers and will want to jumpstart containers, the Chef configuration management tool, Microsoft Azure PaaS, and offerings such as app services and SQL database to host applications. Readers are aware of the issues faced by development and operations teams as they are stakeholders in the application life cycle management process. The reason to jumpstart Jenkins Automation Server, Microsoft Azure PaaS, and VSTS is to understand the importance of their contribution to continuous integration, automated test case execution, and continuous delivery for effective application life cycle management.

It is good to have some prior experience of continuous integration, cloud computing, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. You may be a novice or be experienced with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins. This book covers continuous integration, cloud computing, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment for a sample Java Spring-based application. The main objective is to see end-to-end automation and implement it on the open source and Microsoft technology stack that can be extended further based on the understanding gained from this book.