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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

Ansible – reviewing the code and deploying our infrastructure

While we have covered Terraform in detail in this chapter, we will only quickly review the Ansible code here as we will go into a lot more detail on an Ansible deployment in the next chapter, Chapter 5, Deploying to Amazon Web Services.

Like Terraform, the Ansible code is split into roles; this makes our site.yml file look like the following:

- name: Deploy and configure the Azure Environment
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: true
  vars_files:
    - group_vars/azure.yml
    - group_vars/common.yml
  roles:
    - roles/create-randoms
    - roles/azure-rg
    - roles/azure-virtualnetwork
    - roles/azure-storage
    - roles/azure-mysql
    - roles/azure-vm-admin
   ...