Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code

The objectives of part one are to present the DevOps culture and to provide all the keys for the best infrastructure as code practices. This part explains the application of DevOps to cloud infrastructure, showing provisioning using Terraform and configuration with Ansible. Then, we improve on this by templating this infrastructure with Packer.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, The DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code Practices
• Chapter 2, Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
• Chapter 3, Using Ansible to Configure IaaS Infrastructure
• Chapter 4, Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer
• Chapter 5, Authoring the Development Environment with Vagrant