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Infrastructure as Code for Beginners

You're reading from Infrastructure as Code for Beginners Deploy and manage your cloud-based services with Terraform and Ansible

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837631636

Length 222 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Foundations – An Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

2. Chapter 1: Choosing the Right Approach – Declarative or Imperative FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Ansible and Terraform beyond the Documentation

4. Chapter 3: Planning the Deployment

5. Part 2: Getting Hands-On with the Deployment

6. Chapter 4: Deploying to Microsoft Azure

7. Chapter 5: Deploying to Amazon Web Services

8. Chapter 6: Building upon the Foundations

9. Part 3: CI/CD and Best Practices

10. Chapter 7: Leveraging CI/CD in the Cloud

11. Chapter 8: Common Troubleshooting Tips and Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Exploring Alternative Infrastructure-as-Code Tools

13. Index

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Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

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admin host 39

admin virtual machine 66-69

Admin Virtual Machine role 80

Amazon EC2 86, 89

Amazon Machine Image (AMI) 97

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 85-87

Ansible 29, 30, 126

best practices 168-171

code, reviewing 73

code, writing 89-91

example 30-33

infrastructure, deploying 73, 89-91

running, with GitHub Actions 155-157

troubleshooting tips 172

versus Terraform 32

Ansible deployments

versus Terraform deployments 126-129

Ansible playbook

Auto Scaling group 104

EC2 instance 104

EFS instance 104

Elastic load balancer 104

RDS instance 104

running 81, 102, 103

security group 105

Virtual Private Cloud 106

Ansible playbook roles 91

Admin Virtual Machine role 80

AWS ASG role 100, 101

AWS Database role 96

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Authors (1)

Russ McKendrick

Russ McKendrick

Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations. He works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!

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