Publications

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Leverage the power of Git to smooth out the development cycle

Professional Git takes a professional approach to learning this massively popular software development tool, and provides an up-to-date guide for new users. More than just a development manual, this book helps you get into the Git mindset―extensive discussion of corollaries to traditional systems as well as considerations unique to Git help you draw upon existing skills while looking out―and planning for―the differences. Connected labs and exercises are interspersed at key points to reinforce important concepts and deepen your understanding, and a focus on the practical goes beyond technical tutorials to help you integrate the Git model into your real-world workflow.

Automate your software development processes with GitHub Actions, the continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that integrates seamlessly with GitHub. With this practical book, open source author, trainer, and DevOps director Brent Laster explains everything you need to know about using and getting value from GitHub Actions. You'll learn what actions and workflows are and how they can be used, created, and incorporated into your processes to simplify, standardize, and automate your work in GitHub.

This book explains the platform, components, use cases, implementation, and integration points of actions, so you can leverage them to provide the functionality and features needed in today's complex pipelines and software development processes. You'll learn how to design and implement automated workflows that respond to common events like pushes, pull requests, and review updates. You'll understand how to use the components of the GitHub Actions platform to gain maximum automation and benefit.

Design, implement, and execute continuous delivery pipelines with a level of flexibility, control, and ease of maintenance that was not possible with Jenkins before. With this practical book, build administrators, developers, testers, and other professionals will learn how the features in Jenkins 2 let you define pipelines as code, leverage integration with other key technologies, and create automated, reliable pipelines to simplify and accelerate your DevOps environments.

Author Brent Laster shows you how Jenkins 2 is significantly different from the more traditional, web-only versions of this popular open source automation platform. If you’re familiar with Jenkins and want to take advantage of the new technologies to transform your legacy pipelines or build new modern, automated continuous delivery environments, this is your book.

Continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment are key software delivery processes in a DevOps environment. But what does each one do for your product development and release cycles? In this updated report, Brent Laster explains what these terms really boil down to and how they work separately and together to help your team release software.

This powerful set of disciplines, best practices, and technologies automates the integration and delivery of source code changes from inception through production. Although their implementation may vary, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment are necessary to ensure that software is released frequently, reliably, and with high quality.

Kubernetes has achieved unparalleled dominance as the platform for running containerized workloads by automating and simplifying key functions. But the process for working with specifications for Kubernetes workloads, known as manifests, is neither automated nor simplified. Managing these requirements is a high-cost activity up front, and an additional cost burden when reuse is needed.

In this report, author Brent Laster shows software developers, Kubernetes administrators, and DevOps engineers how the Kustomize container orchestration system helps simplify and alleviate these challenges. You'll gain an overall understanding of Kustomize, including how this system functions, how it compares to tools like Helm, and how it works with your strategy for managing Kubernetes manifests.

Understand the purpose, functioning, and advantages and disadvantages of incorporating Tekton into your technology stack and tooling framework. With this report, software developers and engineers will examine how Tekton stands out among today's continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools. Not only is Tekton cloud native--it also runs natively on Kubernetes.