Название: Infrastructure-as-Code Automation Using Terraform, Packer, Vault, Nomad and Consul: Hands-on Deployment, Configuration, and Best Practices
Автор: Navin Sabharwal, Sarvesh Pandey
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2021
Страниц: 252
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 16.7 MB

Discover the methodologies and best practices for getting started with HashiCorp tools, including Terraform, Vault, and Packer. The book begins with an introduction to the infrastructure-as-code concept while establishing the need for automation and management technologies. You’ll go over hands-on deployment, configuration, and best practices for Terraform, Packer, Vault, Nomad, and Consul. You’ll then delve deeper into developing automation code using Terraform for automating AWS/Azure/GCP public cloud tasks; advanced topics include leveraging Vault for secrets management and Packer for image management.

Building infrastructure is an evolving and complex art, which demands repetitive improvements involving aspects such as maintainability, scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance. In traditional environment, building and deploying infrastructure components was a manual and tedious task which translates to delays and decreases organizational agility. With the emergence of IaC infra components are now treated as merely a software construct, a code which can be shared across different teams. IaC has given rise to mutable infrastructure as the lifecycle of every infra resource/component is treated via code. This leads to negligible configuration drift across various environments thereby maintaining sanity of the environment. Infrastructure is treated the same way an application is treated in an environment. It follows the same devops principle as application, shares same pipelines and is version controlled.