All posts tagged Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud by Kief Morris
2016 | ISBN: 1491924357 | English | 362 pages | PDF | 9 MB

Virtualization, cloud, containers, server automation, and software-defined networking are meant to simplify IT operations. But many organizations adopting these technologies have found that it only leads to a faster-growing sprawl of unmanageable systems. This is where infrastructure as code can help. With this practical guide, author Kief Morris of ThoughtWorks shows you how to effectively use principles, practices, and patterns pioneered through the DevOps movement to manage cloud age infrastructure.

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Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud (Early Release) by Kief Morris
English | 25 Oct. 2015 | ISBN: 1491924357, 1491924314 | 156 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 10.62 MB

This book explains how to take advantage of technologies like cloud, virtualization, and configuration automation to manage IT infrastructure using tools and practices from software development. These technologies have decoupled infrastructure from the underlying hardware, turning it into data and code. "Infrastructure as Code" has emerged alongside the DevOps movement as a label for approaches that merge concepts like source control systems, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) with infrastructure management.

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