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
