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The Modern Way of DevOps

This first chapter will provide some background knowledge of DevOps practices, processes, and tools. We will understand modern DevOps and how it differs from traditional DevOps. We will also introduce containers and understand in detail how containers within the cloud change the entire IT landscape so that we can build on this book’s base. While this book does not entirely focus on containers and their orchestration, modern DevOps practices heavily emphasize it.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • What is DevOps?
  • Introduction to cloud computing
  • Understanding modern cloud-native applications
  • Modern DevOps versus traditional DevOps
  • The need for containers
  • Container architecture
  • Containers ...

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