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Infrastructure as Code for Beginners

By : Russ McKendrick
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Book Image

Infrastructure as Code for Beginners

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By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Foundations – An Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
5
Part 2: Getting Hands-On with the Deployment
9
Part 3: CI/CD and Best Practices

Leveraging CI/CD in the Cloud

We have discovered that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become an essential practice for modern development, enabling developers to manage infrastructure through code rather than manually configuring it.

However, deploying our infrastructure from a local machine, which we have been doing until now, is no longer sufficient for large-scale systems.

This is where Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) comes into play; it automates the deployment process and provides consistent and reliable infrastructure deployment.

This chapter will explore leveraging CI/CD in the cloud to deploy our IaC. We will focus on the popular CI/CD tool, GitHub Actions, which can run workflows triggered by different events, such as pull requests or code commits. We will explore how to use GitHub Actions to run Terraform and Ansible code in both public clouds we covered in Chapter 4, Deploying to Microsoft Azure, and Chapter 5, Deploying to Amazon Web Services...