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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631636
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring Alternative Infrastructure-as-Code Tools

Welcome to the final chapter of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) journey! By now, you should be familiar with the basics of IaC and have gained hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.

As you progress in your career, being aware of and adept with tools in the market is crucial. This chapter aims to expand your IaC toolset by introducing you to three additional tools: Pulumi, Azure Bicep, and AWS CloudFormation.

While the previous tools we explored were cloud-agnostic, Azure Bicep and AWS CloudFormation are specific to their respective cloud providers. On the other hand, Pulumi sets itself apart by enabling you to use familiar programming languages such as Python to define and manage your infrastructure in actual code.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Getting a hands-on understanding of Pulumi
  • Getting hands-on knowledge of Azure Bicep
  • Getting hands-on expertise in AWS CloudFormation...
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