DevOps for Web Development

Mitesh Soni

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781786465702
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Achieve the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of your web applications with ease

About This Book

• Overcome the challenges of implementing DevOps for web applications, familiarize yourself with diverse third-party modules, and learn how to integrate them with bespoke code to efficiently complete tasks
• Understand how to deploy web applications for a variety of Cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Microsoft Azure, Azure Web Apps, and Docker Container
• Understand how to monitor applications deployed in Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Microsoft Azure, Azure Web Apps using Nagios, New Relic, Microsoft Azure, and AWS default monitoring features

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system admin or application and web application developer with a basic knowledge of programming and want to get hands-on with tools such as Jenkins 2 and Chef, and Cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, Docker, New Relic, Nagios, and their modules to host, deploy, monitor, and manage their web applications, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Grasp Continuous Integration for a JEE application—create and configure a build job for a Java application with Maven and with Jenkins 2.0
• Create built-in delivery pipelines of Jenkins 2 and build a pipeline configuration for end-to-end automation to manage the lifecycle of Continuous Integration
• Get to know all about configuration management using Chef to create a runtime environment
• Perform instance provisioning in AWS and Microsoft Azure and manage virtual machines on different cloud platforms—install Knife plugins for Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure
• Deploy an application in Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Microsoft Azure Web Apps, and a Docker container
• Monitor infrastructure, application servers, web servers, and applications with the use of open source monitoring solutions and New Relic
• Orchestrate multiple build jobs to achieve application deployment automation—create parameterized build jobs for end-to-end automation

In Detail

The DevOps culture is growing at a massive rate, as many organizations are adopting it. However, implementing it for web applications is one of the biggest challenges experienced by many developers and admins, which this book will help you overcome using various tools, such as Chef, Docker, and Jenkins.

On the basis of the functionality of these tools, the book is divided into three parts. The first part shows you how to use Jenkins 2.0 for Continuous Integration of a sample JEE application. The second part explains the Chef configuration management tool, and provides an overview of Docker containers, resource provisioning in cloud environments using Chef, and Configuration Management in a cloud environment. The third part explores Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Docker, all using Jenkins 2.0.

This book combines the skills of both web application deployment and system configuration as each chapter contains one or more practical hands-on projects. You will be exposed to real-world project scenarios that are progressively presented from easy to complex solutions. We will teach you concepts such as hosting web applications, configuring a runtime environment, monitoring and hosting on various cloud platforms, and managing them. This book will show you how to essentially host and manage web applications along with Continuous Integration, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Delivery, and Deployment.

Style and approach

This is a learning guide for those who have a basic knowledge of application deployment, configuration management tools, and Cloud computing, and are eager to leverage it to implement DevOps for web applications using end-to-end automation and orchestration.

DevOps for Web Development

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DevOps for Web Development

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Credits

Author Mitesh Soni	Copy Editor Madhusudan Uchil
Reviewer Allan Espinosa	Project Coordinator Judie Jose
Commissioning Editor Pratik Shah	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Smeet Thakkar	Indexer Pratik Shirodkar
Content Development Editor Amedh Gemraram Pohad	Graphics Kirk D'Penha
Technical Editor Vishal Kamal Mewada	Production Coordinator Deepika Naik

About the Author

Mitesh Soni is an avid learner with 9 years’ experience in the IT industry. He is an SCJP, SCWCD, VCP, and IBM Urbancode certified professional. He loves DevOps and cloud computing, and also has an interest in programming in Java. He finds design patterns fascinating. He occasionally contributes to http://etutorialsworld.com. He loves to play with kids, fiddle with his camera, and capture photographs at Indroda Park. He is addicted to taking good pictures without knowing many technical details. He lives in the capital of Mahatma Gandhi's home state.

	"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"
	-- Michael Jordan

Acknowledgments

To my...wife? (I am not married.)

And my...children? (Read the previous sentence.)

...without whom this book has been completed within 3-4 months. (Else it might have taken a year or two—pun intended!)

On a serious note, I would like to dedicate this book to the kid who taught me to live life freely. Shreyu (Shreyansh, my sister Jigisha's baby boy) showed me the power of innocence and smiles. I've had a completely different perspective of life since he has arrived.

Special thanks to Priyanka Agashe for supporting and encouraging me all the time. Please don't overrate me as a person (all sisters do that). Sorry for being khadoos. I would also like to dedicate this book to my father, who is an avid reader. He loves books so much that he reads these technical books and notes down all the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. I want to say thanks and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with.

I would like to thank my parents, Jigisha and Nitesh, dada and dadi, Vinay Kher, my teachers, friends, family members, Aakanksha "Akkus" Deshpande (thanks Mother India for always telling me "koshish karne valo ki haar nahi hoti"), Hemant and Priyanka, Mihi...