DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective

by Len Bass, Ingo Weber, Liming Zhu

Overview

This book provides a conceptual discussion of DevOps practices and their implications on system design. It covers team practices related to DevOps, build and test, deployment, and post deployment. This is the only book that deals with the system implications of DevOps. It includes case studies, references, practical examples and checklists for architects.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780134049878
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	05/08/2015
Series:	SEI Series in Software Engineering
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Len Bass is a senior principal researcher at National ICT Australia Ltd. (NICTA). He joined NICTA in 2011 after 25 years at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the coauthor of two award-winning books in software architecture—Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition (Addison-Wesley 2013) and Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley 2011)—as well as several other books and numerous papers in computer science and software engineering on a wide range of topics. Len has more than 50 years’ experience in software development and research, which has resulted in papers on operating systems, database man­agement systems, user interface software, software architecture, product line sys­tems, and computer operations. He has worked or consulted in multiple domains, including scientific analysis, embedded systems, and information and financial systems.

Ingo Weber is a senior researcher in the Software Systems Research Group at NICTA in Sydney, Australia, as well as an adjunct senior lecturer at CSE at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Prior to NICTA, Ingo held posi­tions at UNSW and at SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests include cloud computing, DevOps, business process management, and artificial intelligence (AI). He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers, and served as a reviewer or program committee member for many prestigious scientific jour­nals and conferences. Ingo holds a Ph.D. and a Diploma from the University of Karlsruhe, and an MSc from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Liming Zhu is a research group leader and principal researcher at NICTA. He holds conjoint positions at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Sydney. Liming has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers. He formerly worked in several technology lead positions in the software industry before obtaining a Ph.D. in software engineering from UNSW. He is a committee member of the Standards Australia IT-015 (system and software engineering), contributing to ISO/SC7. Liming’s research interests include software architec­ture and dependable systems.

Table of Contents

• Part I: Background
• Chapter 1: What Is DevOps?
• Chapter 2: The Cloud as a Platform
• Chapter 3: Operations
• Part II: The Deployment Pipeline
• Chapter 4: Overall Architecture
• Chapter 5: Building and Testing
• Chapter 6: Deployment
• Part III: Crosscutting Concerns
• Chapter 7: Monitoring
• Chapter 8: Security and Security Audits
• Chapter 9: Other
• Chapter 10: Business Considerations
• Part IV: Case Studies
• Chapter 11: Supporting Multiple Datacenters
• Chapter 12: Implementing a Continuous Deployment Pipeline for Enterprises
• Chapter 13: Migrating to Microservices
• Part V: Moving into the Future
• Chapter 14: Operations as a Process
• Chapter 16: The Future of DevOps
• References
• About the Authors
• Index