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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have spoken about the example project we are going to look at deploying into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services in the next two chapters using both Terraform and Ansible. While we have kept the discussion at a high level and aimed to be as cloud-agnostic as possible, we know the tasks we need to follow and roughly how we will get around the limitation of Terraform not really being a tool you can use to manage your application deployment.

Now that we know what our cloud and software architecture is going to look like, as well as having an idea of the order in which we need to deploy the resources, we can make a start on getting into the low-level design and the actual deployments. In our next chapter, we will look at deploying the workload discussed to Microsoft Azure.