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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)
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Part 1: The Foundations – An Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
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Part 2: Getting Hands-On with the Deployment
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Part 3: CI/CD and Best Practices

Getting hands-on with Pulumi

So, what is Pulumi, and why has it yet to be mentioned up until now?

Pulumi is an open source IaC platform that allows developers to define, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure; however, rather than using a descriptive language with YAML (Ansible) or HCL (Terraform), it allows you to use popular programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, and C#, as well as YAML for non-programmers.

With Pulumi, you can build, manage, and deploy IaC more familiarly and expressively, making it easier to reason about complex cloud architectures.

Pulumi supports popular cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. There is also support for tools such as Kubernetes, among others, all of which enable you to define and manage resources across multiple platforms using a single tool.

Great, you may be thinking to yourself – but why hasn’t it been mentioned until now?

The answer is that it should be considered something...