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This book has been superseded by Python Continuous Integration and Delivery.

This book teaches a technically inclined reader how to automate the deployment process of self-written software using Open Source tools. Thus it introduces you to Continuous Delivery, a practice under the DevOps umbrella. It enables faster feedback cycles, which is an important aspect of agile software development.

It makes some assumptions on the technologies used:

Debian GNU/Linux or derived distributions, such as Ubuntu, as the operating system
aptly for repository management
Ansible for deployment and configuration management
Go Continuous Delivery for orchestrating the process

It covers the following topics:

Why automate the release process?
Requirements for automated deployments
Deployments enviroments (test, staging, production, ...) and their function
Architecture of a deployment system
Packaging the software
Distributing the software
Deploying the software
Orchestrating the whole process with Go Continuous Delivery
Version handling
Unit Testing
Smoke Testing and Rolling Deployments
Security Considerations
State Management and managing schema changes.

It shows a step by step process for creating a deployment system, and features two example applications deployed this way.

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