The Journey Begins
A beginners guide to DevOps
What is the purpose of Just In Time Devops?
The purpose of this is to show how to start your DevOps journey. While many people know how to write an application and run it locally, getting it onto a server (especially in an automated way) is a whole different experience. We’re going to go step by step, starting with easy and gradually getting more difficult on how to automate your delivery of code to a cloud environment. Along the way we’ll touch on logs, metrics, monitoring, etc and show simple (and free if possible) ways to handle those.
This is meant for startups and solopreneurs who want to spend time delivering code and doing the minimum needed for infrastructure. And we’ll grow along the way adding more and more until you are ready to have a full infrastructure team deploying Infrastructure as a Service.
We will have a point of view
This isn’t just going to be a how to guide. There will also be discussion about what works and doesn’t work and when you should and shouldn’t use different tools. I will not be going into every possible toolset or environment, but will be focusing on a few. So, we will likely show how to do AWS deployments, but not Azure or Google Cloud. This is by design. Once you know the basics, you should be able to find how to do specific pieces on your own (or feel free to write it up yourself and I’d love to link to it).
Why didn’t you talk about X, Y, Z…
Either it’s too advanced for what I’m talking about or I’m not interested in it or I don’t know/like it. I’m providing a DevOps journey, but it’s not the only journey out there. Just the only one on this site.