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DevOps Paradox

You're reading from DevOps Paradox The truth about DevOps by the people on the front line

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789133639

Length 532 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Ansible

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DevOps

Author (1):

Viktor Farcic

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Jeff Sussna

3. Damien Duportal

4. Kevin Behr

5. Mike Kail

6. James Turnbull

7. Liz Keogh

8. Julian Simpson

9. Andy Clemenko

10. Chris Riley

11. Ádám Sándor

12. Júlia Biró

13. Damon Edwards

14. Kohsuke Kawaguchi

15. Sean Hull

16. Bret Fisher

17. Nirmal Mehta

18. Gregory Bledsoe

19. Wian Vos

20. Index

21. Packt

The journey to DevOps

Viktor Farcic: Hi Kevin, you've been involved with many topics that have become central to DevOps since your early childhood working with your father. How did your father's work prepare you for DevOps?

Kevin Behr: Well, it's exactly 30 years since I first got formally involved in the world of computing. In my earlier years, I had the fortune of growing up with my father, Harold Behr, one of the cofounders of the Association of Field Service Managers, or AFSM. For those who don't know, AFSM was one of the first global groups dedicated to global service managers. AFSM would discuss topics that are still related to DevOps today, such as how mainframe computing was going to be serviced, as well as discussing availability and continuity of value for customers.

I was seven years old when I started building small digital computers, working on vacuum tube equipment. I was about ten years old when I started working with midranges and mainframes...

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Authors (1)

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a Principal Software Delivery Strategist and Developer Advocate at CloudBees, a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and the published author of The DevOps Toolkit Series, DevOps Paradox, and Test-Driven Java Development. His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.

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