You're reading from Learning DevOps A comprehensive guide to accelerating DevOps culture adoption with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Jenkins

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818964

Length 560 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code

2. Chapter 1: The DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code Practices FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Chapter 3: Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure

5. Chapter 4: Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer

6. Chapter 5: Authoring the Development Environment with Vagrant

7. Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

8. Chapter 6: Managing Your Source Code with Git

9. Chapter 7: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

10. Chapter 8: Deploying Infrastructure as Code with CI/CD Pipelines

11. Section 3: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes

12. Chapter 9: Containerizing Your Application with Docker

13. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Effectively with Kubernetes

14. Section 4: Testing Your Application

15. Chapter 11: Testing APIs with Postman

16. Chapter 12: Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

17. Chapter 13: Security and Performance Tests

18. Section 5: Taking DevOps Further/More on DevOps

19. Chapter 14: Security in the DevOps Process with DevSecOps

20. Chapter 15: Reducing Deployment Downtime

21. Chapter 16: DevOps for Open Source Projects

22. Chapter 17: DevOps Best Practices

23. Assessments

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running Packer in Azure Pipelines

To start our IaC pipeline, we will automatically create an Azure VM image using Packer. To perform this operation, we will use Azure Pipelines with a pipeline in YAML format. The goal of this pipeline is to execute a Packer command automatically.

Important Note

For more details on how to create a YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps, read Chapter 7, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

The Packer template that we will use in this section's lab is the code that we learned in Chapter 4, Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer. This source code is available here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-DevOps-Second-Edition/blob/main/CHAP08/packer/.pkr.hcl.

Before we start using Packer, we need first to create an Azure resource group that will store the created VM image by the pipeline. In our lab, we named this Azure resource group rg_images. The following screenshot shows the Azure resource group: