To get the most out of this book

Often in this book, we cover tools and examples of how to use them to increase the productivity of your DevOps workload. You will need at least the version of Python mentioned here to use all the features described in the book. Most of the tasks done on one cloud platform can be done on equivalent services on other platforms.

Software/hardware covered in the book	Operating system requirements
Python 3.9 or higher	Windows, macOS, or Linux
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Microsoft Azure
Google Colab
Grafana

For the cloud platforms, you will need to set up accounts and billing with the respective services.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.