[eBook] Infrastructure as Code for Beginners

Preface ​

Welcome to Infrastructure as Code for Beginners, your guide to managing and deploying your infrastructure through code. This book will equip you with a strong foundation in the essential concepts, tools, and techniques necessary to succeed in this ever-changing landscape. Throughout the chapters, you will gain hands-on experience with popular Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, learn how to plan and deploy resources across leading public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, and delve into best practices and troubleshooting strategies to help you overcome challenges and optimize your deployments. As you progress through the book, you’ll also explore the role of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) in automating your Infrastructure-as-Code projects using GitHub Actions. You’ll learn how to leverage CI/CD to create consistent and reliable deployments and implement security practices to secure your deployments. Furthermore, you’ll expand your Infrastructure-as-Code toolset by exploring alternative tools such as Pulumi, Azure Bicep, and AWS CloudFormation, enhancing your understanding of provider-specific and cloud-agnostic options. By the end of this journey, you’ll have gained the knowledge and confidence to plan, build, deploy, and manage your Infrastructure-as-Code projects enabling you to create efficient, scalable, and reliable infrastructure solutions that will support your projects and career for years to come.

Who this book is for ​

This book is tailored for Developers and System Administrators who have experience of manually deploying resources to host their applications but now want to increase their skills by automating the creation and management of infrastructure alongside their applications. This book will empower readers who, while having a great deal of experience deploying and configuring their resources manually, now want to streamline their processes, enhance efficiency and consistency, and integrate Infrastructure as Code into their daily workflows