Infrastructure as Code

Kief Morris has been developing, creating, and maintaining automated IT server infrastructure for for two decades, beginning with shell scripts and Perl and progressing through CFengine, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible as new technologies appeared. He leads ThoughtWorks' European Continuous Delivery and DevOps expertise, assisting clients in finding more efficient ways to create and manage IT operations.

Virtualization, cloud computing, containers, server automation, and software-defined networking are all designed to make IT operations easier. However, many businesses that have used these technologies have discovered that it merely leads to a faster-growing sprawl of unmanageable systems. This is where infrastructure as code might come in handy. With this practical guide, ThoughtWorks author Kief Morris demonstrates how to effectively apply DevOps ideas, methods, and patterns to manage cloud-era infrastructure.

Infrastructure as Code, written for system administrators, infrastructure engineers, team leads, and architects, illustrates numerous tools, methodologies, and paradigms for implementing infrastructure as code. You will learn about the platforms and tooling involved in generating and configuring infrastructure elements, patterns for using these tools, and techniques for making infrastructure as code work in your environment in three parts.

• Investigate the issues that organizations face when implementing the next generation of infrastructure technology.
• Learn about dynamic infrastructure platforms' features and service models.
• Discover the tools used to provide, provision, and configure fundamental infrastructure resources.
• Investigate the services and tools available for managing a dynamic infrastructure.
• Discover particular patterns and procedures for provisioning servers, creating server templates, and updating live servers.

Author: Kief Morris

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Infrastructure-Code-Managing-Servers-Cloud/dp/1491924357/

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