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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

You're reading from Infrastructure as Code Cookbook Automate complex infrastructures

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786464910

Length 440 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Terraform

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Pierre Pomès

Stephane Jourdan

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Vagrant Development Environments FREE CHAPTER

2. Provisioning IaaS with Terraform

3. Going Further with Terraform

4. Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform

5. Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init

6. Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet

7. Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet

8. Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet

9. Working with Docker

10. Maintaining Docker Containers

Index

Using Chef encrypted data bags and Hiera-eyaml with Puppet

Some information in data bags can be safely stored in the Chef server in plain text, but under some circumstances, sensitive information might be safer if encrypted. Companies might not like production API keys, private keys, or similar sensitive content to be stored in plain text on the Chef server or on third-party services, such as GitHub. We'll see how to encrypt and decrypt data in the command line and from inside a Chef recipe.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need:

A working Chef DK installation on the workstation
A working Vagrant installation on the workstation
The Chef code (optionally) from Chapter 6, Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet, Chapter 7, Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet, or any custom Chef code

How to do it…

Our goal is to create a configuration file containing our AWS credentials for the us-east-1 region, and it's not acceptable that you store...

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Authors (2)

Stephane Jourdan

Stephane Jourdan

Stephane Jourdan is a passionate infrastructure engineer, enthusiastic entrepreneur, zealous trainer, and continuous learner, working on innovative infrastructures since the early 2000s. He focuses equally on tools and culture, in environments as different as startups, online audio/video media, e-commerce, and semi-conductors. The common point between all these experiences is that success comes with rigor, technical repeatability, communication, and a shared team culture. He co-founded an infrastructure automation consultancy (https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-alto), a web radio (http://phauneradio.com/), a container/serverless platform for developers (https://www.squarescale.com/), and a sound design studio (http://www.tarabust.com/). When Stephane isn't starting or contributing to new open source projects, he's usually found hiking in remote places with his camera.

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Pierre Pomès

Pierre Pomès

Pierre Pomès is a senior enthusiastic engineer of open source technologies and a Linux adept since 1994. He has been working in the IT industry for the last twenty years mostly in C development, system administration, and security including PCI-DSS. He is currently an architect and a DevOps team leader for Reservit, an online hotel booking engine. He has also contributed to the pfSense project.

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