Michael S. Cuppett - DevOps, DBAs, and DBaaS: Managing Data Platforms to Support Continuous Integration

DevOps, DBAs,

and DBaaS

Managing Data Platforms to

Support Continuous Integration

Michael S. Cuppett

DEVOPS, DBAS, AND DBAAS

MANAGING DATA PLATFORMS TO SUPPORT

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

Michael S. Cuppett

DevOps, DBAs, and DBaaS: Managing Data Platforms to Support Continuous

Integration

Michael S. Cuppett

Arlington,

Tennessee

USA

ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4842-2207-2

ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4842-2208-9

DOI 10.1007/978-1-4842-2208-9

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960738

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The Apress Business Team

I wish to dedicate this book to

JoAnn, my wife of 25 years. Thank you

for making me a better person, and

for doing a fantastic job raising and

educating our children.

Your capacity for loving, caring, and

encouraging emboldens me to explore

opportunitieslike authoring a

bookfar outside of my comfort zone.

Contents

About the Author ixAbout the Technical Reviewer xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction xvChapter 1: DevOps for DBAs 1

Chapter 2: DBAs for DevOps 15

Chapter 3: Integrating DBA and DevOps Processes 25

Chapter 4: Integrating Database Technologies and DevOps Tools 41

Chapter 5: Stateful Data, Stateless Database Schema, and Code 57

Chapter 6:

Optimizing Application Performance with Change

Management Improvements 73

Chapter 7: Measuring DBA Inputs to End-User Experience and

Business Value 87

Chapter 8: Automation and Code Control 107

Chapter 9: DBaaS, IaaS, and PaaS 123

Chapter 10: Overcoming Language and Cultural Barriers

Between DBAs and DevOps 139

Index 155

About the Author

Michael S Cuppett is a Business Resiliency

Architect for a Fortune 25 healthcare organiza

tion, where he currently strives to apply DevOps

methodologies to disaster recovery programs.

He was previously charged with application and

infrastructure reliability, availability, recoverabil

ity, and performance as a Solutions Engineer.

Cuppett draws on three decades of experience

as a DBA and IT engineer in the U.S. Army and

the private sector, culminating in a succession of

management and senior technology positions

at large companies in database administration,

solutions engineering, and disaster recovery.

Cuppett writes frequent articles on Oracle DBA

issues and the business dimension of DevOps

for LogicalRead, Oracle Technology Network,