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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
5
Part 2: Getting Hands-On with the Deployment
9
Part 3: CI/CD and Best Practices

Deploying to Amazon Web Services

After deploying our WordPress infrastructure into Microsoft Azure, we are now ready to explore how to deploy the same infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, while the high-level design of the infrastructure remains the same, there are some key differences between Azure and AWS that will require us to approach the deployment differently.

In Chapter 4, Deploying to Microsoft Azure, we focused on using Terraform to deploy to Azure. In this chapter, we will be diving deeper into Ansible, another popular infrastructure-as-code tool, to deploy our workload to AWS. Ansible allows us to define the desired state of our infrastructure in a declarative manner and manage the configuration and orchestration of our AWS resources.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of how to use Ansible and Terraform to deploy a WordPress workload on AWS. You will also be familiar with the key differences between Azure and AWS and how...