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Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide
Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide

Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide:

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Profile Icon Paul Swartout
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Course Nov 2012 713 pages 1st Edition
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Key benefits

  • Real world and realistic examples of how to go about implementing continuous delivery and DevOps
  • Learn how continuous delivery and DevOps work together with other agile tools
  • An honest and open guide to consistently shipping quality software quickly

Description

For a while now, there has been a buzz around the IT industry regarding continuous delivery and DevOps. This book will provide you with some background information into these two new kids on the block and how they can help you to optimize, streamline and improve the way you work and ultimately how you ship quality software. "Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide" will provide you with a clear and concise insight into what continuous delivery and DevOps are all about, how to go about preparing for and implementing them and what quantifiable business value they bring. Included within are some tricks and trips based upon real world experiences which may help you reduce the time and effort needed if you were to go it alone. In this book, you will be taken through a journey of discovery starting with real world successes, how you should prepare, plan for and implement CD and DevOps and what the pitfalls are along the way We will start looking at the evolution of a typical software house from fledgling start-up through the growing pains that comes with global success to a best of both worlds. We'll delve into the many aspects of what they did to complete this evolution covering topics such as how they realized there was a problem to solve, how they set about preparing for and implementing continuous delivery and DevOps and what tools, techniques and approaches they used along the way ñ some technical and some not so. If you work within an organization that delivers software, you will be able to plot where you are on the evolutionary scale, understand where you need to do to be more effective, cherry pick the tools, techniques and approaches that work for you and realize the best of both worlds. "Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide" will provide you with the background and information you need to realize the benefits within your own business

Who is this book for?

Whether you are a freelance software developer, a system administrator working within a corporate business, an IT project manager or a CTO in a startup you will have a common problem; regularly shipping quality software is painful. It needn't be. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how to ship quality software regularly without the pain.

What you will learn

  • Determine the problems and pain points within a product delivery process
  • Tools and techniques to understand the root causes of the problems and pain points within a software delivery process
  • Define and measure the success of implementing Devops and continuous delivery
  • Understand the human elements to continuous delivery and DevOps and how important they are
  • Avoid the traps, pitfalls and hurdles you'll experience as you implement continuous delivery and DevOps
  • Monitor and communicate the relative success of DevOps and continuous deliver adoption

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Publication date : Nov 01, 2012
Length: 713 pages
Edition : 1st
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781787126619
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Product Details

Publication date : Nov 01, 2012
Length: 713 pages
Edition : 1st
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781787126619
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Table of Contents

7 Chapters
Evolution of a Software House Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
No Pain, No Gain Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Plan of Attack Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Tools and Technical Approaches Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Culture and Behaviors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Hurdles to Look Out For Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Measuring Success and Remaining Successful Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Joe May 07, 2013
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If you are a relative novice that will be rolling out DevOps, this is a great book to read. It start out with a story about a company that starts as a small development shop, is gobbled up by a bigger company, and then need to move to continuous development and DevOps. This story helps guide the discussion for the rest of the book.The book is quite prescriptive about how to create a DevOps organization (for example, getting the developers closer to operations, including methods to achieve this goal). Some areas that are covered include recommendation about how many environments you should have (production, test, etc.), tool that assist with continuous development and DevOps and what to measure. I especially liked the section on potential issues, and how to address them.The human side of DevOps is interesting, and is valid for most development and operations models, not just DevOps.A couple of items that were not covered that I would have like to have seen included:- Which recommendation should be leveraged in areas that are not moving forward with continuous development.- Many organizations have some areas that have continuous development and some that do not. This does not discuss how to manage a mixed organization.As a get started guide, this is a quick read with solid recommendations. 5 stars.
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Rohit Ghatol May 06, 2014
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This book aims at explaining the Problems with great examples. I could relate to every example myself. That's where it won half of its stars from my side.Now that the problems are described effectively, the solutions are laid down just as well. Lot of emphasis is laid out on explaining how people think, I have this part missing from many books. This one nails it right.Although you should not look at this book as a Getting Started DevOps Guide, its more like why should I do what process , than what tools.
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Patricia Weber Jul 24, 2013
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The book is the one he needed it works for the information he was looking for so it is a good item.
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Chris Crafford Nov 29, 2014
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Excellent book for the practicing DevOps leader/PM/Consultant/Coach. Very practical and down to earth covers the cultural, people and technology issues with good checklists to get you on you way to full DevOps.
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LunarDude Aug 20, 2013
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The title suggested there was a QuickStart to getting cd and DevOps going in your organization, but the delivery is far more theoretical than actionable. I totally agree with the author that cultural and behavioral change is integral to making DevOps and CD work, but the execution of that organizational change is far more arduous than a "QuickStart". Great book if you have never had any exposure to any of these concepts or for a senior level person trying to learn the thought behind DevOps and CD.
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