Infrastructure as Code for Beginners 1st Edition by Russ McKendrick ISBN 9781837636174 1837636176

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ISBN 10: 1837636176
ISBN 13: 9781837636174
Author: Russ McKendrick

The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach ensures consistent and repeatable deployment of cloud-based IaaS/PaaS services, saving you time while delivering impeccable results. Infrastructure as Code for Beginners is a practical implementation guide that helps you gain a clear understanding of the foundations of Infrastructure as Code and make informed decisions when implementing it. With this book, you’ll uncover essential IaC concepts, including planning, selecting, and implementing the right tools for your project. With step-by-step explanations and real-world examples, you’ll gain a solid understanding of the benefits of IaC and the scope of application in your projects. You’ll learn about the pros, cons, and best practices of different IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible, and their use at different stages of the deployment process along with GitHub Actions. Using these tools, you’ll be able to design, deploy, and secure your infrastructure on two major cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. In addition, you’ll explore other IaC tools such as Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to approach your IaC projects confidently.

Infrastructure as Code for Beginners 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1: The Foundations – An Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

Chapter 1: Choosing the Right Approach – Declarative or Imperative

The challenges of managing infrastructure manually

My own journey

Today’s challenges

Conclusion

What is meant by declarative and imperative?

Basic Infrastructure-as-Code project

Declarative approach

Imperative approach

Pets versus cattle

Pets

Cattle

Conclusion

What does all this mean for our Infrastructure-as-Code deployments?

Summary

Further reading

Chapter 2: Ansible and Terraform beyond the Documentation

What is important when choosing a tool?

Deployment types

Infrastructure and configuration

External interactions and secrets

Ease of use

Summary

Introducing Terraform

An HCL example – creating a resource group

Adding more resources

Introducing Ansible

An Ansible example

Introducing Visual Studio Code

Summary

Further reading

Chapter 3: Planning the Deployment

Planning the deployment of our workload

How to approach the deployment of our infrastructure

Deployment considerations

Performing deployment tasks

Introducing cloud-init

Exploring the high-level architecture

Summary

Further reading

Part 2: Getting Hands-On with the Deployment

Chapter 4: Deploying to Microsoft Azure

Technical requirement

Introducing and preparing our cloud environment

Preparing our cloud environment for deployment

Producing the low-level design

Terraform – writing the code and deploying our infrastructure

Setting up the Terraform environment

Creating a resource group

Networking

Ansible – reviewing the code and deploying our infrastructure

Ansible Playbook roles overview

Running the Ansible Playbook

Summary

Further reading

Chapter 5: Deploying to Amazon Web Services

Technical requirements

Introducing Amazon Web Services

Preparing our cloud environment for deployment

Producing the low-level design

Ansible – writing the code and deploying our infrastructure

Ansible playbook roles

Running the Ansible playbook

Terraform – reviewing the code and deploying our infrastructure

Walk-through of Terraform files

Deploying the environment

Summary

Further reading

Chapter 6: Building upon the Foundations

Understanding cloud-agnostic tools

Understand the differences between our Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services deployments

General

Network

Storage

Virtual machine (admin)

Virtual machines with scaling (web)

Seeing it in action

Understanding the differences between our Terraform and Ansible deployments

Introducing more variables

Making the code more reusable

Pop quiz

Summary

Further reading

Answers

Part 3: CI/CD and Best Practices

Chapter 7: Leveraging CI/CD in the Cloud

Technical requirements

Introducing GitHub Actions

Running Terraform using GitHub Actions

Terraform state files

GitHub Actions

Running Ansible using GitHub Actions

Security best practices

Pop quiz

Summary

Further reading

Answers

Chapter 8: Common Troubleshooting Tips and Best Practices

Technical requirements

Infrastructure as Code – best practices and troubleshooting

General IaC best practices

General IaC troubleshooting tips

Terraform – best practices and troubleshooting

Terraform – best practices

Terraform – troubleshooting

Ansible – best practices and troubleshooting

Ansible – best practices

Ansible – troubleshooting

Summary

Chapter 9: Exploring Alternative Infrastructure-as-Code Tools

Technical requirements

Getting hands-on with Pulumi

Using Pulumi and YAML

Using Pulumi and Python

Getting hands-on knowledge of Azure Bicep

Working through the Bicep file

Deploying the Bicep file

Getting hands-on with AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation template

Using the AWS CLI to deploy

Using the AWS Management Console to deploy

Summary

Further reading

Index

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