Infrastructure as Code: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Infrastructure as Code

by Austin Young

This book attempts to explore all you need to know regarding Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). It will assist you in making informed decisions, if you have plans to implement IaC.

As part of the DevOps practices, IaC offers the ability to manage, configure, and create complex infrastructures by means of executable code. When adopting IaC, the infrastructure is managed by defining the preferred state of the infrastructure in source files, and using a tool to help facilitate that. The source files consist of templates, policy definitions, configuration, code, and other related assets.

A better infrastructure delivery can help improve the important aspects of software delivery performance that drive business outcomes. These include time to restore service, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and deployment frequency.

What You’ll Learn:

Understand how IaC works. Explore tools and services for updating running servers, building server templates, and provisioning servers. Learn about immutable infrastructure and the tools needed to implement it. Comprehend how to make an object reproducible. Discover the best practices for managing a dynamic infrastructure. And lots more…

118 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 24, 2019

Reviews

[JAmes S. Orander · Rating 4 out of 5]

good overview for IaC

Austin Young does a good job of explaining IaC from basic concepts, understanding tools, security and best practices. Overall a good read to build a foundation for IaC.

[Reybis Ceballos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overview and intro to DevOps 👏

Great book for getting started in DevOps and cloud native applications looking to be in a CI/CD pipeline. Also is great to start knowing great cloud tools for everyday tasks.

[Eswara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Serves as presentation to infrastructure as code. talks almost the concepts at higher level. book doesn't present to automatic way for overseeing foundation. Great for amateur and apprentices.

[Keheira · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its ok as a high level book, but not really what I was looking for as someone with a toe already in this space.