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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.

Ideal for system administrators, infrastructure engineers, team leads, and architects, this book demonstrates various tools, techniques, and patterns you can use to implement infrastructure as code. In three parts, youâ??ll learn about the platforms and tooling involved in creating and configuring infrastructure elements, patterns for using these tools, and practices for making infrastructure as code work in your environment.

  • Examine the pitfalls that organizations fall into when adopting the new generation of infrastructure technologies
  • Understand the capabilities and service models of dynamic infrastructure platforms
  • Learn about tools that provide, provision, and configure core infrastructure resources
  • Explore services and tools for managing a dynamic infrastructure
  • Learn specific patterns and practices for provisioning servers, building server templates, and updating running servers

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Kief Morris has been designing, building, and running automated IT server infrastructure for nearly twenty years, having started out with shell scripts and Perl, moving on to CFengine, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible among other technologies as they’ve emerged. He is the head of ThoughtWorks’ European practice for Continuous Delivery and DevOps, helping clients find more effective ways of building and managing infrastructure operations.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (July 26, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491924357
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491924358
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.97 x 0.79 x 9.13 inches
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Kief Morris has been designing, building, and running automated IT server infrastructure for nearly twenty years, having started out with shell scripts and Perl, moving on to CFengine, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible among other technologies as they’ve emerged. He is a consultant for ThoughtWorks, helping clients with ambitious missions take advantage of cloud, infrastructure, and Continuous Delivery. Originally from Tennessee and Florida, he is now based in London.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One book to rule them all
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2021
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Although it’s not possible to write one book that covers all aspects of agile and dynamic IT-infrastructure, this book touches on all areas and gives a good hand down about how to go about automation (opposed to just scripting manual tasks).
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William P Ross
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Attempt To Define The Cloud
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2016
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Infrastructure as Code shows modern techniques to use the cloud. The beginning chapters detailed the differences between the "Iron Age" of infrastructure and newer cloud based methods. Scripts are shown often to show how you would actually setup some cloud based instances. The author has a preference for Ruby and AWS.

The middle portions of the book look at design patterns related to the cloud. Often "anti-patterns" are explored as well to show what not to do. Templating servers and configuration management is detailed.

Part III of the book was basically a summary of DevOps. I found the information to be too general here, and sometimes not that relevant to Infrastructure. To give an example, the author discusses Code Reviews where he says: "All too often, code reviewing becomes a wasteful activity that doesn't lead to improvements actually being made to code. Pair programming is more rigorous, with input from two people leading to better design and improvements made in real time."

The author often states opinions like this, but does not back them up by anything but his opinion. There was no evidence provided to show that code reviews are wasteful, while pair programming boosts productivity. Maybe this has been the case for the author, but I would have liked to seen more evidence for a lot of his claims. A lot of the asides in the book were taken from the author's personal experiences and used to prove something.

I found the stronger parts of the book where the author shows configurations and details. Parts in which the author relied on personal experiences and generalizations were not as good. Overall though, this was an informative book that is helping define the new rules for cloud based architectures.
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Adam Leff
5.0 out of 5 stars I found this book to be very informative as I ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2018
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I found this book to be very informative as I am trying to shift from manual operations experience into automated operations. Another thing that I really appreciated while reading this is I never saw the words "X subject matter is outside the scope of this book." Whenever a casual reference was made to a topic that wasn't intended to be discussed in detail, a footnote was provided that referred me to a more specfic text, video or blog site.
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Matt
5.0 out of 5 stars I could not explain any better.
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018
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I would give this book to all the project manager and guys with control of the budgets. Explains the rationale of why IT needs to put key pieces in play and collaborate across departments.
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PGraves
5.0 out of 5 stars Way to do DevOps
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020
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Clear explanations and examples. There concepts are important.
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Scott Piper
3.0 out of 5 stars Did not learn anything
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2017
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This is well-written and provides a good overview of some of the concepts (benefits and high level methods) of defining your infrastructure in text files, but honestly I didn't get anything out of this book. I do security at a company where we use AWS and have one devops guy doing everything, so I decided to try to learn a little more about what he does. This book did not help me. I already knew that defining what servers you have in text files that can be checked into git is a good thing. I already knew that saving your configurations for how these servers should be set up is a good thing. I was hoping to learn more about best practices at a more technical level, but this book is too high level for that.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2018
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I like the whole book but I expect that it more deep in the knowledge of IaC.
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Michael
5.0 out of 5 stars Clearly defines Infrastructure as code, why we need it and how to get there!
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2017
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Clearly defines Infrastructure as code, why we need it and how to get there! Examples of the types of tools, best practices and principles!
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Sebastiao Santos
1.0 out of 5 stars Desconto do cupom nao aplicado.
Reviewed in Brazil on July 30, 2018
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Apliquei o cupom de desconto e a compra foi efetuada sem o devido desconto. Não teve nenhuma mensagem avisando algo errado. Me senti enganado.
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Asmi Pathak
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read for a novice like me who wanted to ...
Reviewed in India on October 11, 2017
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Excellent read for a novice like me who wanted to start from basics and move to more intermediate topics gradually!
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Fabio Martinez Merino
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book... common sense distilled
Reviewed in Spain on December 30, 2016
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High level aproximation to infrastructure management "the dynamic way"... that is manage infrastructure so provisionning and service delivery is streamlined and once you have set up your delivery pipeline.... oooops servers as pancakes... tips in order to avoid your infra gains entropy everyday... second law is inexorable but... you can try to tether it ☺... if you are used to agile software development, continuous intgration & delivery, you'll find lots of concepts really ring a bell... morris explains the way infra is managed you can tap onto lots of lessons learned and guidelines from those disciplines... very useful book if you have to manage / lead infrastructure projects, service delivery crews, data center ops... not so useful if you are tech savvy and what you need are tech recipes scripts template samples to get you started although you will be finding some too...
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Vedran K
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in Germany on November 14, 2016
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Excellent book in the area of infrastructure (barebone and cloud) orchestration. I can absolutely give it all the possible recommendations.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Livre agréable à lire pour un livre technique comme souvent les o'reilly
Reviewed in France on November 5, 2016
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Livre faisant un tour complet du problème. Attention, il est focalisé sur les principes, il y a peu d'exemple réel.
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