Continuous Delivery: Rapid and Reliable Releases with DevOps
DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods, and practices that enables the rapid deployment of software systems. DevOps focuses on lowering barriers between development, testing, security, and operations in support of rapid iterative development and deployment. Many organizations struggle when implementing DevOps because of its inherent technical, process, and cultural challenges. Bob Aiello shares DevOps best practices, starting with its role early in the application lifecycle and bridging the gap with testing, security, and operations. Bob explains how to implement DevOps using industry standards and frameworks such as ITIL v3 (IT Service Management) in both agile and non-agile environments, focusing on automated deployment frameworks that quickly deliver value to the business. DevOps includes server provisioning essential for cloud computing in what is becoming known as Infrastructure as Code. Bob equips you with practical and effective DevOps practices—automated application build, packaging, and deployment—essential for meeting today's business and technology demands.
Bob Aiello is a consultant and author with more than twenty-five years of prior experience as a technical manager at leading financial services firms, with company-wide responsibility for CM, ALM and DevOps. He often provides hands-on technical support for enterprise source code management tools, SOX/Cobit compliance, build engineering, continuous integration, and automated application deployment. He serves on the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) management board and served as the technical editor for CM Crossroads for more than 15 years. Bob is also editor of the Agile ALM DevOps journal, coauthor of Configuration Management Best Practices (Addison-Wesley, 2011) and his latest book Agile Application Lifecycle Management - Using DevOps to Drive Process Improvement (http://agilealmdevops.com).