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Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced.

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited. In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise

Software is starting to play a much larger role in how companies compete across a broad range of industries. As the basis of competition shifts to software, large traditional organizations are finding that their current approaches to managing software are limiting their ability to respond as quickly as the business requires. DevOps is a fundamental shift in how leading edge companies are starting to manage their software and IT work. It is driven by the need for businesses to move more quickly and the realization that large software organizations are applying these DevOps principles to develop new software faster than anyone ever thought possible. Everyone is talking about DevOps.

Ansible From Beginner to Pro

Throughout this book, you’re going to be introduced to facets of Ansible and how the program can be used to ensure that all of your machines are configured correctly, whether it’s your local desktop or a fleet of remote servers. It’s important to note that this book mostly assumes that you’re on a Linux or OS X machine. While it is possible to run Ansible on Windows, it is highly experimental and not recommended for day-to-day use. If you are on a Windows machine, don’t worry! In this chapter, we’ll explain how to use a virtualized Linux machine as your control system, which means that you can run Ansible just like you’d be able to if you were running Linux or OS X natively.