Nex-G Innovations

The DevOps Ideal

• Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment
• The Light at the End of the Deployment Pipeline

The Implementation Breakthrough: Continuous Deployment, Microservices, and Containers

• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery and Deployment
• Microservices
• Containers
• The Three Musketeers: Synergy of Continuous Deployment, Microservices, and Containers

System Architecture

• Monolithic Applications
• Services Split Horizontally
• Microservices
• Monolithic Applications and Microservices Compared
• Strategies
• Microservices Best Practices

Setting Up the Development Environment With Vagrant and Docker

• Combining Microservice Architecture and Container Technology
• Vagrant and Docker
• Development Environment Setup

Implementation of the Deployment Pipeline: Initial Stages

• Spinning Up the Continuous Deployment Virtual Machine
• Deployment Pipeline Steps
• The Checklist

Configuration Management in the Docker World

• CFEngine
• Puppet
• Chef
• Ansible
• Configuring the Production Environment
• Setting Up the Ansible Playbook

Implementation of the Deployment Pipeline: Intermediate Stages

• Deploying Containers to the Production Server
• Docker UI
• The Checklist

Service Discovery: The Key to Distributed Services

• Service Registry
• Service Registration
• Service Discovery
• Service Discovery Tools
• Manual Configuration
• Zookeeper
• etcd
• Consul
• Service Discovery Tools Compared

Proxy Services

• Reverse Proxy Service
• How Can Proxy Service Help Our Project?
• nginx
• HAProxy
• Proxy Tools Compared

Implementation of the Deployment Pipeline: The Late Stages

• Starting the Containers
• Integrating the Service
• Running Post-Deployment Tests
• Pushing the Tests Container to the Registry
• The Checklist

Automating Implementation of the Deployment Pipeline

• Deployment Pipeline Steps
• The Playbook and the Role
• Pre-Deployment Tasks
• Deployment Tasks
• Post-Deployment Tasks
• Running the Automated Deployment Pipeline

Continuous Integration (CI), Delivery and Deployment (CD) Tools

• CI/CD Tools Compared
• The Short History of CI/CD Tools
• Jenkins

Blue-Green Deployment

• The Blue-Green Deployment Process
• Manually Running the Blue-Green Deployment
• Automating the Blue-Green Deployment with Jenkins Workflow

Clustering And Scaling Services

• Scalability
• Axis Scaling
• Clustering
• Docker Clustering Tools Compared: Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm vs Mesos
• Docker Swarm Walkthrough
• Deploying with Docker Swarm Without Links
• Scaling Services with Docker Swarm
• Scheduling Containers Depending on Reserved CPUs and Memory
• Automating Deployment With Docker Swarm and Ansible

Clustering And Scaling Services

• Scalability
• Axis Scaling
• Clustering
• Docker Clustering Tools Compared: Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm vs Mesos
• Docker Swarm Walkthrough
• Deploying with Docker Swarm Without Links
• Scaling Services with Docker Swarm
• Scheduling Containers Depending on Reserved CPUs and Memory
• Automating Deployment With Docker Swarm and Ansible

Self-Healing Systems

• Self-Healing Levels and Types
• Self-Healing Architecture
• Self-Healing with Docker, Consul Watches, and Jenkins
• Combining On-Premise with Cloud Nodes
• Self-Healing Summary (So Far)

Centralized Logging and Monitoring

• The Need for Centralized Logging
• Sending Log Entries to ElasticSearch
• Parsing Log Entries
• Sending Log Entries to a Central LogStash Instance
• Sending Docker Log Entries to a Central LogStash Instance
• Self-Healing Based on Software Data
• Logging Hardware Status
• Self-Healing Based on Hardware Data