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Infrastructure as Code for Beginners

You're reading from   Infrastructure as Code for Beginners Deploy and manage your cloud-based services with Terraform and Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631636
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Foundations – An Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
2. Chapter 1: Choosing the Right Approach – Declarative or Imperative FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Ansible and Terraform beyond the Documentation 4. Chapter 3: Planning the Deployment 5. Part 2: Getting Hands-On with the Deployment
6. Chapter 4: Deploying to Microsoft Azure 7. Chapter 5: Deploying to Amazon Web Services 8. Chapter 6: Building upon the Foundations 9. Part 3: CI/CD and Best Practices
10. Chapter 7: Leveraging CI/CD in the Cloud 11. Chapter 8: Common Troubleshooting Tips and Best Practices 12. Chapter 9: Exploring Alternative Infrastructure-as-Code Tools 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing and preparing our cloud environment

In 2008, Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure, a cloud-based data center service that had been in development under the internal project name Project Red Dog. This service included five core components:

  • Microsoft SQL Data Services, a cloud version of the SQL database, which aimed to simplify hosting
  • Microsoft .NET Services, a Platform as a Service (PaaS), allowed developers to deploy their .NET-based applications in a Microsoft-managed runtime
  • Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics, Software as a Service (SaaS) versions of the company’s intranet and customer relationship management products
  • Windows Azure is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that enables users to create virtual machines, storage, and networking services for their compute workloads

All the services provided by Microsoft as part of Windows Azure were built upon the Red Dog operating system, a specialized version of their Windows NT operating...

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