Preface

This book provides an architectural overview of DevOps, AIOps, and DevSecOps – three domains that drive and accelerate digital transformation. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you will understand why and how DevOps should be integrated into the enterprise architecture, securing it and resulting in leaner operations and accelerating digital transformation.

By the end of the book, you will be able to develop robust DevOps architectures and understand which toolsets you can use. You will also have a deeper understanding of next-level DevOps implementing Site Reliability Engineering. You will have learned what AIOps is and what value it can bring to the enterprise. Lastly, you will have learned how to integrate security principles such as Zero Trust and industry security frameworks to DevOps with DevSecOps.

Who this book is for

This book teaches enterprise architects, solutions architects, and consultants how to design, implement, and integrate DevOps in the enterprise architecture while keeping operations on board with agile development and with the enterprise remaining secure and resilient. The book is not about hundreds of different tools but will teach you how to create a successful DevOps architecture.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Defining the Reference Architecture for Enterprise DevOps, introduces DevOps as part of the enterprise architecture.

Chapter 2, Managing DevOps from Architecture, shows how to manage DevOps artifacts such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Development from architecture.

Chapter 3, Architecting for DevOps Quality, teaches you how to ensure and manage quality attributes in DevOps, focusing on testing methodologies.

Chapter 4, Scaling DevOps, demonstrates that DevOps is not a one-time exercise but needs to scale with the enterprise's needs.

Chapter 5, Architecting Next-Level DevOps with SRE, introduces the concept of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and how an architect can prepare for SRE.

Chapter 6, Defining Operations in Architecture, focuses on the role of operations in enterprises and how this role is affected by DevOps.

Chapter 7, Understanding the Impact of AI on DevOps, elaborates on the impact of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on operations.

Chapter 8, Architecting AIOps, runs through the architectural steps to implement AI and ML in operations.

Chapter 9, Integrating AIOps in DevOps, discusses integrating AIOps into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and automating the CI/CD pipeline using AIOps.

Chapter 10, Making the Final Step to NoOps, is a bit of a philosophical chapter on the evolution of operations in an enterprise, starting from operations that are enhanced with AI and ML to NoOps, fully automated operations that don't require any manual intervention.

Chapter 11, Understanding Security in DevOps, introduces the security concepts that apply to DevOps, such as scanning code for vulnerabilities.

Chapter 12, Architecting for DevSecOps, discusses creating a security architecture that can be integrated into development and deployment pipelines.

Chapter 13, Working with DevSecOps Using Industry Security Frameworks, elaborates on various security frameworks, such as ISO and CSA, but also HIPAA for healthcare and PCI for financial institutions, which enterprises need to be compliant with in their DevOps practice.

Chapter 14, Integrating DevSecOps with DevOps, teaches you how to integrate security policies, standards, and guardrails in DevOps practices and how to govern DevSecOps.

Chapter 15, Implementing Zero Trust Architecture, is the final chapter on applying and managing Zero Trust in DevOps.

To get the most out of this book

It's highly recommended that you have a basic understanding of enterprise and cloud architecture. For enterprise architecture, an introduction to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is advised. For cloud architecture, a basic understanding of major public clouds such as AWS and Azure will certainly help you to get the most out of this book.

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