Devops Online Training

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DevOps Tutorials Welcome to DevOps Tutorials. The
objective of these tutorials is to provide in
depth understand of DevOps. In addition to free
DevOps, we will cover common interview questions,
issues and how tos of DevOps. Introduction DevO
ps attempts to solve this problem by developing a
partnership between Development and Operations
(hence, the name). In this structure, the
development team supports operational
requirements such as deploy scripts, diagnostics,
and load and performance testing from the
beginning of the cycle and the operations team
provides knowledgeable support and feedback
before, during, and after deployment. DevOps is
the direction in which many software development
teams are going. They have to, given the
pressures organizations are under to produce
higher-quality code faster with less time
available for QA. This is a new environment and
many developers will need to adjust if they want
to prosper. With timelines compressed, the walls
separating development, QA, and production are
barriers to agility. DevOps attempts to break
through those walls. Now, team-playing skills are
as important as technical skills. So, too, is a
singular focus on the end-user experience and how
that is affecting the business. Rather than a
new set of tools or organization, DevOps is a new
culture and process. Its development, QA, and
operations working together to expedite
development and problem resolution. DevOps is
good for developers. There are three principal
reasons a developer would want to work in a
DevOps-oriented organization. A better quality of
life. Developers working in DevOps-mode receive
fewer calls in the middle of the night to
resolve production issues. Thats because they
see issues before they become catastrophic
problems due to an orientation of proactive
monitoring rather than reactive alerts. Pride of
ownership. In a traditional software process,
once software is developed, its thrown over
the wall to QA, which later throws it over
another wall to production so what the end-user
ultimately sees might be quite different from
what the developer wrote. But under the DevOps
model, what you write goes live because you
continue to have visibility and access to the
code even after it goes to QA and production. In
other words, developers own the delivery of the
code from creation to implementation. More
relevant work. Developers, like most human
beings, get greater satisfaction from work that
has relevance in the real world. Because
developers in a traditional organization are
isolated, they often work on simulated problems
in made-up user scenarios and they only find
out that these approximations were wrong when
something breaks. In a DevOps model, scenarios
are real. Environments are load tested, for
example beforetheyre put into production to
see if they work correctly. Another example is
that test scripts are, themselves, tested for
realism by being deployed
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in the production environment, not just test
labs. Sharing these test results with developers
gives them the opportunity to see how their code
performs under real-life conditions. Benefits of
DevOps DevOps is a powerful idea because it
resonates on so many different levels. From the
perspective of individuals toiling in hands-on
development or operational roles, DevOps points
towards a life that is free from the source of so
many of their hassles. Its by no means a
magical panacea, but if you can make DevOps work
you are removing barriers that are both a
significant time-sink and a source of morale
killing frustration. Its a simple calculation to
make invest in making DevOps a reality and we
all should be more efficient, increasingly
nimble, and less frustrated. Some may argue that
DevOps is a lofty or even farfetched goal, but
its difficult to argue that you shouldnt
try. For the business, DevOps contributes
directly to enabling two powerful and strategic
business qualities, business agility and IT
alignment. These may not be terms that the
troops in the IT trenches worry about on a daily
basis, but they should definitely get the
attention of the executives who approve the
budgets and sign the checks. A simple definition
of IT alignment is a desired state in which a
business organization is able to use information
technology (IT) effectively to achieve business
objectives typically improved financial
performance or marketplace competitiveness DevOps
helps to enable IT alignment by aligning
development and operations roles and processes in
the context of shared business objectives. Both
development and operations need to understand
that they are part of a unified business process.
DevOps thinking ensures that individual decisions
and actions strive to support and improve that
unified business process, regardless of
organizational structure.
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A simple definition of agility in a business
context is the ability of an organization to
rapidly adapt to market and environmental
changes in productive and cost-effective ways
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Developers also have their own specialized
meaning of the word agile, but the goals are
very similar. Agile development methodologies
are designed to keep software development efforts
aligned with customer/company goals and produce
high quality software despite changing
requirements. For most organizations, Scrum, the
iterative project management methodology, is the
face of Agile. Agile promises close interaction
and fast feedback between the business
stakeholders making the decisions and the
developers acting on those decisions. If you look
at the output of a well functioning Agile
development group you should see a steady stream
improvement that is in tune with business
needs. However, when you step back and look at
the entire development-to-operations lifecycle
from an enterprise point of view, that Agile
stream and its associated benefits are often
obscured. The Wall of Confusion leads to a
dissociation of the application lifecycle.
Development works at one pace and Operations
works at another. The long intervals between
production deployments, in effect, turn the
Agile efforts of an organization right back into
the waterfall lifecycle it was trying to avoid.
No matter how Agile the development organization
is, its exceedingly difficult to change the slow
and lumbering nature of a business while the
Wall of Confusion is in place. Andrew Rendell has
a great post that tells the anecdotal story of
how an organizations cumbersome release
processes turn their agile development efforts
right back into a waterfall. DevOps enables the
benefits of Agile development to be felt at the
organizational level. DevOps does this by
allowing for fast and responsive, yet stable,
operations that can be kept in sync with the pace
of innovation coming out of the development
process.