Infrastructure as Code: Dynamic Systems for the Cloud Age

✍ Scribed by Kief Morris

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Six years ago, Infrastructure as Code was a new concept. Today, as even banks and other conservative organizations plan moves to the cloud, development teams for companies worldwide are attempting to build large infrastructure codebases. With this practical book, Kief Morris of ThoughtWorks shows you how to effectively use principles, practices, and patterns pioneered by DevOps teams to manage cloud-age infrastructure.

Ideal for system administrators, infrastructure engineers, software developers, team leads, and architects, this updated edition demonstrates how you can exploit cloud and automation technology to make changes easily, safely, quickly, and responsibly. You'll learn how to define everything as code and apply software design and engineering practices to build your system from small, loosely coupled pieces.

This book covers:
* Foundations: Use Infrastructure as Code to drive continuous change and raise the bar of operational quality, using tools and technologies to build cloud-based platforms
* Working with infrastructure stacks: Learn how to define, provision, test, and continuously deliver changes to infrastructure resources
* Working with servers and other platforms: Use patterns to design provisioning and configuration of servers and clusters
* Working with large systems and teams: Learn workflows, governance, and architectural patterns to create and manage infrastructure elements

✦ Table of Contents

Preface

I. Foundations
1. What Is Infrastructure as Code?
2. Principles of Cloud Age Infrastructure
3. Infrastructure Platforms
4. Core Practice: Define Everything as Code

II. Working with Infrastructure Stacks
5. Building Infrastructure Stacks as Code
6. Building Environments with Stacks
7. Configuring Stack Instances
8. Core Practice: Continuously Test and Deliver
9. Testing Infrastructure Stacks

III. Working with Servers and Other Application Runtime Platforms
10. Application Runtimes
11. Building Servers as Code
12. Managing Changes to Servers
13. Server Images as Code
14. Building Clusters as Code

IV. Designing Infrastructure
15. Core Practice: Small, Simple Pieces
16. Building Stacks from Components
17. Using Stacks as Components

V. Delivering Infrastructure
18. Organizing Infrastructure Code
19. Delivering Infrastructure Code
20. Team Workflows
21. Safely Changing Infrastructure

Index