Getting Started with DevOps

DevOps deals with all forms of Dev, QA and Operations processes and importantly co-ordination and information exchange across multiple stakeholder involved in end to end software development process. Implementing DevOps is a complex task. It requires a solid understanding of the practices, process, and concepts as well as good understanding of the various tools along with the practical aspects of their application. This book covers the fundamental principles and practices, underlying concepts, tools and practical side of DevOps.

Through this book we wanted to make an attempt to explain DevOps concept, its practices and how one can adopt and leverage Devops. This book provides detailed information that describe how to use the different features of DevOps. The books cover topics ranging from basic understanding of DevOps practices, its components, knowing its tools, monitoring and administration, to some advanced topics such as Cloud and Virtualization, integration using Jenkins and some open source and proprietary tools for DevOps.

The topic of the book presents the information in a concise, actionable form; this lets you refer to the chapters to address and know the details of just the use case in hand, without going through the entire book.

Reason behind writing this book

• We chose to write this book because, 1. We wanted to learn - This was one of the primary motive behind coming up with this book as we ourselves wanted to explore and learn more about this trending term“DevOps” and its concepts which are being used a lot but were bit shadowy. Through this book we were able to focus on different areas of Devops and place our understanding in a very basic language which one can easily understand, putting all the things together to provide some practical use-cases rather than just the theory.
• We wanted to share - While we were re-searching on DevOps, we thought of sharing our knowledge with others as well, so that one can also gain from it and moreover they can suggest and provide their feedback in making our understanding in DevOps domain better. It's not just that we wanted to show our knowledge, we also wanted to make an attempt to present our views on this complex topic and understand what reader’s think about.
• Last but not least, we were really unable to find a single source which can summarize all the DevOps practices. Devops information is available but in various bits and pieces and with this book we tried to consolidate all of it into one single book which can be used as a reference for quick start.