Stelligent: Continuous Delivery/DevOps and Cloud Resources Reading List

Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration

• Continuous Delivery (CD) Patterns and Antipatterns (Duvall): http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/continuous-delivery-patterns
• Anatomy of a Deployment Pipeline (from CD book): http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1621865
• Continuous Delivery Assembly Line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIaVsG7m8n4
• CD Reference Implementation in AWS (Duvall)
• Pragmatic Automation? (Duvall)
• DevOps is not only Infrastructure Automation (Duvall)
• Continuous Delivery book (Humble, Farley): http://amzn.com/0321601912/
• Continuous Integration book (Duvall, et al.): http://amzn.com/0321336380/
• Recipes for Continuous Database Integration (Sadalage): http://amzn.com/B000RH0EI4
• Refactoring Databases (Ambler): http://amzn.com/0321293533

Cloud/AWS

• DevOps in the Cloud, Lesson 1.1 (Duvall, 2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnn9WsOrD-g
• Companion website for DevOps in the Cloud: http://www.devopscloud.com/
• AWS User Guides on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Web-Services/e/B007R6MVQ6/
• AWS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices/
• Brian Jakovich (from Stelligent) weekly screencast series on Cloud Delivery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiZeRHaHHRg
• DevOps in the Cloud (Duvall, 2012): http://my.safaribooksonline.com/video/operating-systems-and-server-administration/virtualization/9780132836357
• Cloud Deployment Production Line: http://www.stelligent.com/devops-process/
• Cloud Delivery in AWS DRAFT: http://www.stelligent.com/cloudops/chapter-1/

DevOps

• The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim, et al.): http://amzn.com/0988262592/
• IBM developWorks Agile DevOps series: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=agile+devops:
  • The flattening of the software release process: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops1/
  • Infrastructure automation: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops2/
  • Transient environments: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops3/
  • Unleash the Chaos Monkey: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops4/
  • Test-driven infrastructure: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops5/
  • Version everything: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops6/
  • Dynamic configuration: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops7/
  • Continuous software delivery in the cloud: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops8/
  • Breaking down silos: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops9/
  • Build a DevOps dashboard: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/a-devops10/
• IBM Automation for the People article series (Duvall): http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=automation+people:
  • Choosing a Continuous Integration server: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap09056/
  • Speed deployment with automation: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap01088/
  • Build Java projects with Raven: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap11067/
  • Improving code with Eclipse plugins: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap01117/
  • Continuous Inspection: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap08016/
  • Hands-off load testing: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap04088/
  • Deployment-automation patterns, Part 1: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap01139/
  • Deployment-automation patterns, Part 2: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap02109/
  • Asserting architectural soundness: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap07107/
  • Continuous feedback: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap11146/
  • Continuous Integration anti-patterns: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap11297/
  • Continuous Integration anti-patterns, Part 2: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap03048/
  • Remove the smell from your build scripts: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap10106/
  • Manage dependencies with Ivy: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/java/j-ap05068-a4.pdf
  • Pushbutton documentation: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/java/j-ap06108-pdf.pdf
  • Wielding wizard-basedinstallers: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/java/j-ap11258-pdf.pdf
  • Hands-free database migration: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/java/j-ap08058-pdf.pdf
• DevOps Survey Report from PuppetLabs: https://puppetlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-state-of-devops-report.pdf
• Continuous Testing: http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/continuous-integration-howto/en/resources/Duvall_0321336380_CH06.pdf

Lean

• “The Goal” – by Goldratt: http://amzn.com/0884270610
• “Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash” – by Poppendieck: http://amzn.com/0321437381

Open Source

• https://github.com/stelligent/honolulu_answers
• https://github.com/stelligent/opendelivery_gem

Tools that Stelligent Uses

• AWS Auto Scaling: https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/
• AWS CloudFormation: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/
• Amazon CloudWatch: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
• Elastic Load Balancing: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
• AWS Identity and Access Management: https://aws.amazon.com/iam/
• AWS OpsWorks: https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/
• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS): https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
• Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES): https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS): https://aws.amazon.com/sns/
• Amazon Simple Queue Service: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
• Virtual Private Cloud: https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/
• OpenDelivery: https://github.com/stelligent/continuous_delivery_open_platform
  • https://github.com/stelligent/opendelivery_gem
• Cloud Delivery Scorecard (Stelligent): (under development)
• Cost Monitoring: https://github.com/netflix/ice or https://cloudability.com/
• CanaryBoard (Dashboard): https://github.com/stelligent/canaryboard
• CloudPatrol (Governance/Cleanup): https://github.com/stelligent/cloudpatrol and/or https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Janitor-Home
• Resilience – Stelligent Havoc: http://havoc.stelligent.com/ or https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
• CI Server – Jenkins: http://jenkins-ci.org/
• Application Deployment: https://github.com/Netflix/asgard
• Chef: http://www.opscode.com/chef/ (and Hosted Chef)
• Puppet: https://puppetlabs.com/
• Cucumber: http://cukes.info/
• Ruby: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
• Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org/
• Git (https://github.com/), Subversion, etc.
• System Monitoring Tool(s): CloudWatch, New Relic, OpsWorks (Ganglia)
• Application Monitoring Tool(s): New Relic
• Encryption: http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads, SSE
• Logging Tool(s): Loggly.com
• Operational Checklists: https://s3.amazonaws.com/awsmedia/AWS_Operational_Checklists.pdf

AWS Security

• A New and Standardized Way to Manage Credentials in the AWS SDKs
• Want help with securing your AWS account? Here are some resources
• IAM Best Practices