Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

Preface

In continuously evolving environments, operations and development teams are increasingly working together, using tools and techniques and sharing a common culture popularized as part of the DevOps movement. From development to production, a common tooling and approach emerged—often borrowed from developers and the agile techniques.

Now that APIs are everywhere in the datacenter, automation took over every aspect and every step of what used to be a sysadmin or IT job—infrastructure is now basically code, and should be considered as such while working alone in development or in production within a distributed team.

Learning the most important tools, techniques, and workflows that fit in an infrastructure-as-code description can be a daunting ...