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Published inNov 2018
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Pethuru Raj Chelliah
Pethuru Raj Chelliah
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Pethuru Raj Chelliah

 Pethuru Raj Chelliah (PhD) works as the chief architect at the Site Reliability Engineering Center of Excellence, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore. Previously, he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, IBM India, Bangalore, for four years. He also had an extended stint as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture consultant in Wipro Consulting services division and as a lead architect in the corporate research division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. He has more than 17 years of IT industry experience.
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Shreyash Naithani
Shreyash Naithani
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Shreyash Naithani

Shreyash Naithani is currently a site reliability engineer at Microsoft R&D. Prior to Microsoft, he worked with both start-ups and mid-level companies. He completed his PG Diploma from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bengaluru, India, and is a computer science graduate from Punjab Technical University, India. In a short span of time, he has had the opportunity to work as a DevOps engineer with Python/C#, and as a tools developer, site/service reliability engineer, and Unix system administrator. During his leisure time, he loves to travel and binge watch series.
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Shailender Singh
Shailender Singh
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Shailender Singh

Shailender Singh is a principal site reliability engineer and a solution architect with around 11 year's IT experience who holds two master's degrees in IT and computer application. He has worked as a C developer on the Linux platform. He had exposure to almost all infrastructure technologies from hybrid to cloud-hosted environments. In the past, he has worked with companies including Mckinsey, HP, HCL, Revionics and Avalara and these days he tends to use AWS, K8s, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, and OpenShift.
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What is DaaS?


DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS) is a service that allows you to get all the compilation, building, and Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Development (CD) tool chains setup instead of having to setup your own. DaaS can be provided by an internal team. In this case, the development team won't take any direct actions to manage its infrastructure; it will just feed its code to get compile, build, and CI/CD features. Alternatively, DaaS can be provided by external vendors, in a market that is expanding rapidly. These can help with your journey to achieve CI and CD.

In 2016, Gartner declared that 25% of 2,000 global companies that are surveyed will be using DevOps. However, this year, Forrester research has said that this will reach 50%. According to a study by cloud management provider RightScale,

the ratio of enterprises that have adopted some aspects of DevOps principles reached 84% in 2017

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There are multiple websites that list all the major DaaS vendors. The following are among...

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Published in: Nov 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788839563

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Pethuru Raj Chelliah

 Pethuru Raj Chelliah (PhD) works as the chief architect at the Site Reliability Engineering Center of Excellence, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore. Previously, he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, IBM India, Bangalore, for four years. He also had an extended stint as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture consultant in Wipro Consulting services division and as a lead architect in the corporate research division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. He has more than 17 years of IT industry experience.
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Shreyash Naithani

Shreyash Naithani is currently a site reliability engineer at Microsoft R&D. Prior to Microsoft, he worked with both start-ups and mid-level companies. He completed his PG Diploma from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bengaluru, India, and is a computer science graduate from Punjab Technical University, India. In a short span of time, he has had the opportunity to work as a DevOps engineer with Python/C#, and as a tools developer, site/service reliability engineer, and Unix system administrator. During his leisure time, he loves to travel and binge watch series.
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Shailender Singh

Shailender Singh is a principal site reliability engineer and a solution architect with around 11 year's IT experience who holds two master's degrees in IT and computer application. He has worked as a C developer on the Linux platform. He had exposure to almost all infrastructure technologies from hybrid to cloud-hosted environments. In the past, he has worked with companies including Mckinsey, HP, HCL, Revionics and Avalara and these days he tends to use AWS, K8s, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, and OpenShift.
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