Atlassian DevOps Toolchain Cookbook

Seamlessly integrate Atlassian Open DevOps tools such as Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, Compass, Confluence, and Opsgenie with other automated testing, monitoring, and security tools such as SonarQube and Snyk for a powerful and agile DevSecOps deployment process

Key Features

• Streamline development progress visibility by connecting Jira with other DevOps tools through Open DevOps
• Enhance observability by integrating development tools like Bitbucket Pipelines with Compass
• Learn best practices for DevSecOps integrations and processes using real-world examples
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Implementing DevOps practices and toolchains for automated testing and deployment can accelerate product development with minimal errors in the production environment. However, creating DevOps toolchains by integrating tools from various vendors presents challenges for both administrators and developers. Written by four well-known experts from the Atlassian community, this book addresses the complexities of DevOps toolchain creation and integration by leveraging Atlassian’s Open DevOps solution.

Starting with a holistic overview of the DevOps and Atlassian Open DevOps solution, you’ll learn to integrate Jira with other tools. You’ll then find out how to create and integrate a CI/CD pipeline in Bitbucket for automated testing and deployment to Docker containers. With step-by-step guidance, you’ll connect Jira and Bitbucket with other tools, such as Snyk for security and SonarQube for testing, to form an extensive toolchain. You’ll also learn how Compass uses CheckOps for observability and how to use Confluence for documentation and reporting. Finally, you’ll leverage Opsgenie’s ChatOps functionality to enhance collaboration between developers and operations teams.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to establish your DevOps toolchain by integrating Atlassian tools to automate and optimize the software development lifecycle and beyond.

What you will learn

• Extend reporting capabilities in Jira using Open DevOps
• Integrate Jira with popular tools for tracking the build and deployment status
• Track the progress of product ideas with Jira Product Discovery
• Document and report projects using Confluence
• Create and deploy CI/CD pipelines in Bitbucket and perform testing in SonarQube
• Integrate security scanning into your CI/CD pipeline using Snyk
• Create an observability portal in Compass
• Use Opsgenie to collaborate with other teams when incidents occur

Who this book is for

This book is a valuable resource for DevOps engineers, platform engineers, SREs, software developers, and Atlassian tool administrators who want to automate testing, integration, and deployment processes using the Atlassian DevOps toolchain. A basic understanding of DevOps processes will be beneficial. While prior knowledge of administering Atlassian tools may be helpful, it is not necessary, as the recipes cover the administrative tasks needed to implement the DevOps toolchain and practices.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to DevOps and the Atlassian Ecosystem
2. Discovering Customer Needs with Jira Product Discovery
3. Planning and Documentation with Confluence
4. Enabling Connections for Design, Source Control, and Continuous Integration
5. Understanding Bitbucket and Bitbucket Pipelines
6. Extending and Executing Bitbucket Pipelines
7. Leveraging Test Case Management and Security Tools for DevSecOps
8. Deploying with Bitbucket Pipelines

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Robert Wen is a DevOps consultant at ReleaseTEAM. He specializes in continuous integration, continuous deployment, value stream management, and agile development. He has over 20 years of experience in hardware and software development, working in industries such as defense, aerospace, healthcare, and telecommunications. During his career, he has been a coach as the scrum master for several Agile projects and a trainer for courses on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). He holds the SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Atlassian Certified Expert, Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer, GitLab Professional Services Engineer, and Flow Framework Professional titles and certifications.

Alex Ortiz is an Atlassian educator and administrator at Apetech. He specializes in the administration and utilization of the various Atlassian tools. He has over 10 years of experience in hardware and software development, working for industries such as aerospace and robotics. During his career, he has been an IT administrator for TFS, Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket. He has also served as a technical program manager for unmanned vehicles and autonomous robots. He is the creator of Apetech Tech Tutorials, a YouTube channel focusing on the Atlassian tools. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). He has a BS in computer engineering from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and an MS in systems engineering from the University of Southern California (USC).

Edward Gaile is a principal solution architect at Appfire. He has over 20 years of experience in software development, primarily in the healthcare insurance industry. His specialties include enterprise application design, DevOps, and change enablement optimization. He has been involved in the Atlassian eco-sphere for the past 12 years, including leading the Atlanta Atlassian user community for the past 10 years. He holds multiple Atlassian certifications and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In his spare time, he is a professional BBQ pit master.

Rodney Nissen, better known as the Jira Guy, is a blogger who writes regularly on Atlassian tools and cohosts the The Jira Life podcast. He is also a DevOps engineer with ReleaseTEAM and has been working on setting up DevOps tools for 10 years. He specializes in integrating various DevOps tools together, Atlassian tools setup and configuration, and using “infrastructure as code” configuration tools to aid in system administration. He is currently an Atlassian Community Leader, Atlassian Certified Expert, and an active participant in the Atlassian Creator Program, holding credentials in Atlassian Jira administration, Atlassian confluence administration, Atlassian Agile development with Jira software, and Atlassian system administration.