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DevOps Automation Cookbook

By : Michael Duffy
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DevOps Automation Cookbook

By: Michael Duffy

Overview of this book

<p>There has been a recent explosion in tools that allow you to redefine the delivery of infrastructure and applications, using a combination of automation and testing to deliver continuous deployment. DevOps has garnered interest from every quarter, and is rapidly being recognized as a radical shift, as large as the Agile movement for the delivery of software.</p> <p>This book takes a collection of some of the coolest software available today and shows you how to use it to create impressive changes to the way you deliver applications and software. It tackles the plethora of tools that are now available to enable organizations to take advantage of the automation, monitoring, and configuration management techniques that define a DevOps-driven infrastructure.</p> <p>Starting off with the fundamental command-line tools that every DevOps enthusiast must know, this book will guide you through the implementation of the Ansible tool to help you facilitate automation and perform diverse tasks. You will explore how to build hosts automatically with the creation of Apt mirrors and interactive pre-seeds, which are of the utmost importance for Ubuntu automation. You will also delve into the concept of virtualization and creating and manipulating guests with ESXi. Following this, you will venture into the application of Docker; learn how to install, run, network, and restore Docker containers; and also learn how to build containers in Jenkins and deploy apps using a combination of Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins. You will also discover how to filter data with Grafana and the usage of InfluxDB along with unconventional log management. Finally, you will get acquainted with cloud infrastructure, employing the Heroku and Amazon AWS platforms.</p> <p>By tackling real-world issues, this book will guide you through a huge variety of tools, giving new users the ability to get up and running and offering advanced users some interesting recipes that may help with existing issues.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
DevOps Automation Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing ESXi


Before we go any further, we need to install our virtualization software. In this case, we are going to use the latest version of VMware ESXi - at the time of writing, ESXi 6.0. Although VMware has commercial offerings, the bare metal hypervisor is both free to use and widely employed in private data centers.

Getting ready

First, you will need a place to install ESXi. This means that you are going to need some hardware that is capable of running it. ESXi supports a wide array of hardware, and most modern desktops will suffice. If you need a small workgroup server, you can find small servers such as the Dell PoweredgeT20 or the HP Micro G8 server that will suffice for small workloads of around five or six smallish VM's. Of course, if you need to support larger workloads, then ESXi will happily run on monstrous multi-processor and multi-core servers.

Tip

You can check out the servers that are compatible at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility.

Once you have your hardware...