Feuling Bryan. Repeatability Reliability Scalability Through Gitops: Continuous delivery and deployment codified

Packt Publishing, 2021. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-1801077798.Learn how to best use GitOps to automate manual tasks in the continuous delivery and deployment process.Key FeaturesExplore the different GitOps schools of thought and understand which GitOps practices will work for you and your team.
Get up and running with the fundamentals of GitOps implementation.
Understand how to effectively automate the deployment and delivery process.The world of software delivery and deployment has come a long way in the last few decades. From waterfall methods to Agile practices, every company that develops its software has to overcome various challenges in delivery and deployment to meet customer and market demands. This book will guide you through common industry practices for software delivery and deployment.Throughout the book, you'll follow the journey of a DevOps team that matures its software release process from quarterly deployments to continuous delivery using GitOps. With the help of hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you'll build your knowledge of GitOps basics, different types of GitOps practices, and how to decide which GitOps practice is the best for your company. As you progress, you'll cover everything from building declarative language files to the pitfalls in performing continuous deployment with GitOps.By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed in the fundamentals of delivery and deployment, the different schools of GitOps, and how to best leverage GitOps in your teams.What you will learnExplore a variety of common industry tools for GitOps.
Understand continuous deployment, and continuous delivery, and why they are important.
Gain a practical understanding of using GitOps as an engineering organization.
Become well-versed in using GitOps and Kubernetes together.
Leverage Git events for automated deployments.
Implement GitOps best practices and find out how to avoid GitOps pitfalls.Who this book is forThis book is for engineering leaders and anyone working in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, build/release, or cloud automation teams. A basic understanding of the DevOps software development life cycle (SDLC) will help you to get the most out of this book.Fundamentals of GitOps
The Fundamentals of Delivery and Deployment.
Exploring Common Industry Delivery and Deployment Practices.
The "What" and "Why" of GitOps.GitOps Types, Benefits, and Drawbacks
The Original GitOps – Continuous Deployment in Kubernetes.
The Purist GitOps – Continuous Deployment Everywhere.
Verified GitOps – Continuous Delivery Declaratively Defined.
Best Practices for Delivery, Deployment, and GitOps.Hands-On Practical GitOps
Practicing the Basics – Declarative Language File Building.
Originalist Gitops in Practice – Continuous Deployment.
Verified GitOps Setup – Continuous Delivery GitOps with Harness.
Pitfall Examples – Experiencing Issues with GitOps.
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