Stefano Picozzi - DevOps with OpenShift

by Stefano Picozzi , Mike Hepburn , and Noel OConnor

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If youre old, dont try to change yourself, change your environment.

B. F. Skinner

One view of DevOps is that it helps take on that last mile problem in software: value delivery. The premise is that encouraging behaviors such as teaming, feedback, and experimentation will be reinforced by desirable outcomes such as better software, delivered faster and at lower cost. For many, the DevOps discourse then quickly turns to automation. That makes sense as automation is an environmental intervention that is relatively actionable. If you want to change behavior, change the environment!

In this context, automation becomes a significant investment decision with strategic import. DevOps automation engineers face a number of design choices. What level of interface abstraction is appropriate for the automation tooling? Where should you separate automation concerns of an infrastructure nature from those that should be more application centric?

These questions matter because automation tooling that is accessible to all can better connect all the participants in the software delivery process. That is going to help foster all those positive teaming behaviors we are after. Automation that is decoupled from infrastructure provisioning events makes it possible to quickly tenant new project streams. Users can immediately self-serve without raising a new infrastructure requisition.

We want to open the innovation process to all, be they 10x programmers or citizen developers. Doing DevOps with OpenShift makes this possible, and this book will show you how.

This is a practical guide that will show how to easily implement and automate powerful cloud deployment patterns using OpenShift. The OpenShift container management platform provides a self-service platform for users. Its natively container-aware approach will allow us to show you an application-centric view to automation.