"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. With a subtitle of Managing Servers in the Cloud, this book by Kief Morris explains how to take advantage of technologies like cloud, virtualization, and configuration automation to manage IT infrastructure using tools and practices from software development. 

Morris demonstrates the tools, techniques, and patterns you can use to implement infrastructure as code, covering the platforms and tooling involved in creating and configuring infrastructure elements, providing patterns for using these tools and practices for making infrastructure as code work in your environment.

Author: Kief Morris
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: June 2016
Pages: 250
ISBN: 978-1491924358
Print: 1491924357
Kindle: B01GUG9ZNU
Audience: DevOps professionals
Level: intermediate
Category: Systems Management 

• 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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