From the course: DevOps Tips
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Practicing DevOps on databases
- [Instructor] In many development workflows, the database comes as an afterthought, but the database can be one of the most critical parts of an application when it comes to reliability and performance. Let's look at a few parts of the DevOps life cycle and see how we can give databases the attention they deserve. We can start in the planning stage by including database administrators and database specialists as early as possible. Many DevOps practitioners know how to work with databases, although maybe just enough to be dangerous. Which is why we should bring in trained DBAs at the start of planning so we can get their input on database architectures and implementations. That will give us the confidence we need to move ahead to the coding stage. Just like so many other resources, database servers can be created using code with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation and others. And once database servers are in place, any…
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