Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook : over 90 practical, actionable recipes to automate, test, and manage your infrastructure quickly and effectively / Stephane Jourdan, Pierre Pomes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jourdan, Stephane, author.

Pomès, P. (Pierre), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Management.

Computer networks.

Cloud computing.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Jourdan Stephane: 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. Pomes Pierre: Pierre Pomes 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.

Summary:

Over 90 practical, actionable recipes to automate, test, and manage your infrastructure quickly and effectively About This Book Bring down your delivery timeline from days to hours by treating your server configurations and VMs as code, just like you would with software code. Take your existing knowledge and skill set with your existing tools (Puppet, Chef, or Docker) to the next level and solve IT infrastructure challenges. Use practical recipes to use code to provision and deploy servers and applications and have greater control of your infrastructure. Who This Book Is For This book is for DevOps engineers and developers working in cross-functional teams or operations and would now switch to IAC to manage complex infrastructures. What You Will Learn Provision local and remote development environments with Vagrant Automate production infrastructures with Terraform, Ansible and Cloud-init on AWS, OpenStack, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and more Manage and test automated systems using Chef and Puppet Build, ship, and debug optimized Docker containers Explore the best practices to automate and test everything from cloud infrastructures to operating system configuration In Detail Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is a key aspect of the DevOps movement, and this book will show you how to transform the way you work with your infrastructure—by treating it as software. This book is dedicated to helping you discover the essentials of infrastructure automation and its related practices; the over 90 organized practical solutions will demonstrate how to work with some of the very best tools and cloud solutions. You will learn how to deploy repeatable infrastructures and services on AWS, OpenStack, Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean. You will see both Ansible and Terraform in action, manipulate the best bits from cloud-init to easily bootstrap instances, and simulate consistent environments locally or remotely using Vagrant. You will discover how to automate and test a range of system tasks using Chef or Puppet. You will also build, test, and debug various Docker containers having developers' interests in mind. This book will help you to use the right tools, techniques, and approaches to deliver working solutions for today's modern infrastructure challenges. Style and approach This is a recipe-based book that allows you to venture into some of the most cutting-edge practices and techniques about IAC and solve immediate problems when trying to implement them. Down...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Vagrant Development Environments

Introduction

Adding an Ubuntu Xenial (16.04 LTS) Vagrant box

Using a disposable Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) in seconds

Enabling VirtualBox Guest Additions in Vagrant

Using a disposable CentOS 7.x with VMware in seconds

Extending the VMware VM capabilities

Enabling multiprovider Vagrant environments

Customizing a Vagrant VM

Using Docker with Vagrant

Using Docker in Vagrant for a Ghost blog behind NGINX

Using Vagrant remotely with AWS EC2 and Docker

Simulating dynamic multiple host networking

Simulating a networked three-tier architecture app with Vagrant

Show your work on the LAN while working with Laravel

Sharing access to your Vagrant environment with the world

Simulating Chef upgrades using Vagrant

Using Ansible with Vagrant to create a Docker host

Using Docker containers on CoreOS with Vagrant

Chapter 2: Provisioning IaaS with Terraform

Configuring the Terraform AWS Provider

Creating and using an SSH key pair to use on AWS

Using AWS security groups with Terraform

Creating an Ubuntu EC2 instance with Terraform

Generating meaningful outputs with Terraform

Using contextual defaults with Terraform

Managing S3 storage with Terraform

Creating private Docker repositories with Terraform

Creating a PostgreSQL RDS database with Terraform

Enabling CloudWatch Logs for Docker with Terraform

Managing IAM users with Terraform

Chapter 3: Going Further with Terraform

Handling different environments with Terraform

Provisioning a CentOS 7 EC2 instance with Chef using Terraform

Using data sources, templates, and local execution.

Executing remote commands at bootstrap using Terraform

Using Docker with Terraform

Simulating infrastructure changes using Terraform

Teamwork - sharing Terraform infrastructure state

Maintaining a clean and standardized Terraform code

One Makefile to rule them all

Team workflow example

Managing GitHub with Terraform

External monitoring integration with StatusCake

Chapter 4: Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform

Provisioning a complete CoreOS

infrastructure on Digital Ocean with Terraform

Provisioning a three-tier infrastructure on Google Compute Engine

Provisioning a GitLab CE + CI runners on OpenStack

Managing Heroku apps and add-ons using Terraform

Creating a scalable Docker Swarm cluster on bare metal with Packet

Chapter 5: Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init

Using cloud-init on AWS, Digital Ocean, or OpenStack

Handling files using cloud-init

Configuring the server's time zone using cloud-init

Managing users, keys, and credentials using cloud-init

Managing repositories and packages using cloud-init

Running commands during boot using cloud-init

Configuring CoreOS using cloud-init

Deploying Chef Client from start to finish using cloud-init

Deploying a remote Docker server using cloud-init

Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet

Getting started with Chef (notions and tools)

Installing the Chef Development Kit (Chef DK)

Creating and using a free Hosted Chef server account

Automatically bootstrapping a Chef client on a node

Installing packages using Chef

Managing services using Chef

Managing files, directories, and templates using Chef

Handling dependencies using Chef

More dynamic code using notifications

Centrally sharing data using a data bag.

Creating functional roles

Managing external cookbooks the Berkshelf way

Chapter 7: Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet

Linting infrastructure code using Foodcritic or Cookstyle

Unit testing infrastructure code with ChefSpec

Testing infrastructure code using Test Kitchen

Integration testing infrastructure code with ServerSpec

Chapter 8: Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet

Maintaining consistent systems using scheduled convergence

Creating Chef environments

Using encrypted data bags

Using Chef Vault encryption

Accessing and manipulating system information with Ohai

Automating application deployment (a WordPress example)

Using a TDD Chef workflow

Planning for the worse - train to rebuild working systems

Chapter 9: Working with Docker

Docker usage overview

Choosing the right Docker base image

Optimizing the Docker image size

Versioning Docker images with tags

Deploying a Ruby-on-Rails web application in Docker

Building and using Golang applications with Docker

Networking with Docker

Creating more dynamic containers

Auto-configuring dynamic containers

Better security with unprivileged users

Orchestrating with Docker Compose

Linting a Dockerfile

Deploying a private Docker registry with S3 storage

Chapter 10 : Maintaining Docker Containers

Testing Docker containers with BATS

Test-Driven Development with Docker and Serverpec

The workflow for creating automated Docker builds from Git

The workflow for connecting the Continuous Integration system

Scanning for vulnerabilities with Quay.io and Docker Cloud

Sending Docker logs to AWS CloudWatch logs

Monitoring and getting information out of Docker

Debugging containers using sysdig

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2017).

ISBN:

9781786461292

1786461293

OCLC:

976000835