DevOps for VMware Administrators, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (March 19, 2015) © 2015

  • Trevor A. Roberts
  • Josh Atwell
  • Egle Sigler
  • Yvo van Doorn
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Title overview

DevOps for VMware® Administrators focuses on using DevOps tools and practices with VMware technologies. The authors introduce high-value tools from third parties and VMware itself, and guide you through using them to improve the performance of all your virtualised systems and applications. You’ll walk through automating and optimising configuration management, provisioning, log management, continuous integration, and more.

The authors also offer step-by-step coverage of deploying and managing applications at scale with Docker containers and Google Kubernetes. They conclude with a discussion of VMware’s DevOps initiatives, including VMware vRealize Automation and VMware vRealize Code Stream.
  • Understanding the challenges that DevOps tools and practices can help VMware administrators to solve
  • Using Vagrant to quickly deploy Dev and Test environments that match production system specifications
  • Writing Chef “recipes” that streamline server configuration and maintenance
  • Simplifying Unix/Linux configuration management and orchestration with Ansible
  • Implementing Docker containers for faster and easier application management
  • Automating provisioning across the full lifecycle with Razor
  • Integrating Microsoft PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and VMware PowerCLI to automate key Windows Server and vSphere VM admin tasks
  • Using Puppet to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, orchestration, and reporting
  • Supercharging log management with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Supporting DevOps source code management with Git and continuous integration practices with Jenkins
  • Achieving continuous integration, delivery, and deployment with VMware’s vRealize Code Stream

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Table of contents

  • Part 1 Introduction to DevOps
  • 1 Introduction to DevOps
  • 2 DevOps Tools
  • 3 Setting Up a DevOps Confi guration Management Test Environment
  • Part 2 Puppet
  • 4 Introduction to Puppet
  • 5 Systems Management Tasks with Puppet
  • 6 VMware vSphere Management with Puppet
  • Part 3 Chef
  • 7 Introduction to Chef
  • 8 Systems Management Tasks with Chef
  • 9 VMware vSphere Management with Chef
  • Part 4 Ansible
  • 10 Introduction to Ansible
  • 11 Systems Management Tasks with Ansible
  • Part 5 PowerShell 4.0
  • 12 Introduction to PowerShell Desired State Confi guration (DSC)
  • 13 Implementation Strategies with PowerShell DSC
  • Part 6 Application Deployment with Containers
  • 14 Introduction to Application Containers with Docker
  • 15 Running Docker Containers at Scale
  • Part 7 DevOps Tool Chain
  • 16 Server Provisioning Using Razor
  • 17 Intro to the ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
  • 18 Continuous Integration with Jenkins
  • Part 8 VMware DevOps Practices
  • 19 VMware vRealize Automation in DevOps Environments

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