This is the second edition of the Terraform for Developers book, presenting a thoroughly practical approach to using IaC for robust deployment and maintenance. This latest release is the most updated edition on Terraform, with the latest capabilities, patterns, and hands-on applications. Each chapter breaks down complex ideas into easy-to-follow steps, showing how to deal with the real challenges that come up in modern cloud deployments.

You'll start by learning the basics, like providers, variables, and states. It also highlights some really cool modules, showing how to create, reuse, and share them across projects. Later on, it covers secrets management, showing how to store and handle sensitive data safely. It also covers advanced networking and multi-cloud usage, hurdles in bridging subnets, load balancers, and container orchestration frameworks. It also covers troubleshooting across the syntax, logic, and runtime issues that might occur. And it shows how to incorporate testing, from unit checks on modules to integration scenarios for multi-service environments.

The final chapters cover advanced topics such as customizing workflows with CI/CD pipelines and using test environments. This book won't turn you into a Terraform master overnight, but it will show you all the practical features, patterns, and tricks to improve your infrastructure management.

Key Learnings

• Discover how Terraform streamlines resource provisioning.
• Write maintainable modules with confidence.
• Integrate advanced network constructs, subnets, and routing logic across multi-cloud topologies.
• Employ ephemeral credentials with Vault dynamic secrets.
• Automate robust tests, from unit checks to full environment validations.
• Practical debugging steps for syntax, semantic, and runtime errors.
• Adopt CI/CD pipelines to unify code reviews and automated deployments.
• Combine container orchestration solutions with Terraform's consistent state tracking to scale clusters.
• Structure microservices, security, and multi-environment usage.
• Track resource utilization, concurrency, and code maintainability across your stack.

Table of Content

1. Introduction to Terraform and IaC
2. Getting Started with Terraform
3. Essentials of Terraform Configuration Language
4. Terraform Modules and Reusable Infrastructure
5. Terraform State Management
6. Provisioners and Provisioning Resources
7. Working with Secrets
8. Administering Networks with Terraform
9. Advanced Topics in Terraform
10. Administering Terraform As Expert

A collection of over seventy-five solution-focused recipes, "Ansible DevOps Cookbook" will show you how to use Ansible to fix problems, simplify operations, and boost the efficiency of your DevOps practices. Clear, step-by-step directions are provided for every recipe in this cookbook, covering everything from basic setup to advanced techniques.

You should start by creating an efficient inventory system, configuring control and managed nodes, and setting up your Ansible environment. You can implement effective solutions such as handling more complex playbook techniques, such as working with variables, facts, conditionals, loops, and more. You will be skillful to organize playbooks and create reusable automation with Ansible roles. You can increase your automation capabilities by accessing community-driven content through Ansible Galaxy, which is explained in the book.When it comes to cloud integration, the book goes into great detail on how to automate deployments on AWS, Azure, and GCP. These recipes show how to use Ansible modules for managing and provisioning cloud infrastructure, so you can manage resources efficiently and ensure high availability and performance. Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab are among the many of the tools covered in this book, which teaches you to automate the build, test, and deployment pipeline as part of continuous integration and continuous delivery.

From playbook errors to inventory management issues, this cookbook has solutions to fix it all. Ansible Tower and AWX are implemented in the last chapters to automate enterprise-grade tasks, including job scheduling, monitoring, and role-based access control. This book's practical, real-world solutions will help you improve your DevOps practices and maximize the effectiveness of Ansible in your automation processes.

Key Learnings

• Gain the expertise and abilities needed to establish Ansible environments for efficient automation and management of DevOps processes.
• Discover sophisticated playbook strategies for optimizing task automation through the utilization of variables and handlers.
• Streamline cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure optimal availability and performance.
• Integrate Ansible with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitLab to enable continuous delivery.
• Resolve playbook errors and address inventory management issues using effective solutions.
• Employ Ansible roles and Galaxy to implement scalable and reusable automation content.
• Deploy high-level automation using Ansible Tower and AWX, which includes robust role-based access control.
• Efficiently manage workflow by scheduling and monitoring Ansible jobs.
• Efficiently oversee both dynamic and static inventories, guaranteeing accurate allocation of resources.

Table of Content

1. Up and Running with Ansible Environment
2. Writing and Running Playbooks
3. Managing Inventories
4. Advanced Playbook Techniques
5. Ansible Plugins and Modules
6. Provisioning on Windows and Mac Systems
7. Ansible with AWS, Azure and GCP
8. Managing CI/CD
9. Ansible Tower and AWX

This study-cum-exam guide will take you to every dimension in Terraform getting you prepared to confidently take HashiCorp's Terraform Certification exam. An extensive introduction to Terraform's architecture, covering its providers, resources, and state management features, sets the stage in the first chapter of the book. After you finish the first few chapters, you'll be behind the wheel, practicing for real-world situations with the help of several exercises.

Using CloudOptic, a made-up but believable tech corporation, as an example, you will learn the ins and outs of module development and management. Starting with the basics and working its way up to advanced topics, this book walks you through every step of a Terraform project's lifetime.

Still, it's only the start. State manipulation commands, resource targeting, and handling configuration drifts are just a few of the tough but vital topics covered thoroughly in this book. With examples and practical suggestions provided, you will learn how to work with variables, output values, dependencies, and state files.

This book will teach you all you need to know about reusable modules and more, so you can create and integrate your own. The book's inclusion of exercises and real-world scenarios further increases its usefulness by providing ample opportunity to demonstrate mastery of the material. Every level of Terraform knowledge, from the most fundamental to the most complex, is covered thoroughly, preparing you to face any problem that comes your way.

Key Learnings

• Understand the fundamentals, including providers, resources, and state files.
• An in-depth look at making reusable modules, dealing with dependencies, and using versioning.
• Applicable, real-world context learning through the made-up corporation CloudOptic.
• Acquire knowledge of commands for manipulating states, handling drifts, and version control.
• Gain a grasp of the most important metrics and best practices for scaling Terraform systems.
• Proficiency in maintaining the Terraform codebase for future versions and ensuring compatibility.
• Instructions for setting up a connection between Terraform and the CDKTF.
• Code in accordance with industry standards to make Terraform scripts more dependable and cleaner.
• Prep for HashiCorp's Terraform Certification with tough quizzes and exercises.

Table of Content

1. IaC and Terraform
2. Understanding Terraform Basics
3. Terraform Workflow
4. State Management and Backend
5. Advanced Configuration Techniques
6. Terraform Modules
7. Terraform Import and Maintenance
8. Best Practices and Design Patterns

Audience

Anyone with a basic understanding of HashiCorp Terraform and a background in cloud, IT operations, devops, or software development can apply for this certification. Prior knowledge of on-premise and cloud architectural is preferred although not mandatory.

"Azure Bicep QuickStart Pro" is a handy reference for getting up and running with the Azure Bicep platform and deploying your first projects quickly and easily. Starting with the basics, this book walks you through the syntax of JSON and the templates available in Azure Resource Manager (ARM). With Bicep's declarative syntax and structure, you'll be up and running in no time, making infrastructure code management a breeze.

Parameters, conditions, and loops are some of the Bicep features that you will learn how to use to manage infrastructure deployments. Reusable module definition, decomposing complicated deployments into manageable components, and Bicep integration with CI/CD pipelines are all covered in the book. You will automate deployments and maintain consistency across development, staging, and production environments by utilizing GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. To deal with deployment failures and minimize downtime, the book offers rollback and rollforward strategies, which are based on real-world problems.

Additionally, Blue-Green Deployments are covered, which involve running two identical production environments to reduce risk during updates. Managing dependencies, securely handling secrets, and monitoring and auditing your deployments are all within your reach with the help of practical solutions and troubleshooting techniques. When you finish this book, you will be able to confidently and efficiently deploy Azure resources.

Key Learnings

• Master Azure Bicep in no time, from the fundamentals to advanced deployment methods.
• Learn the ins and outs of Azure deployments using ARM templates written in JSON syntax.
• Efficiently manage your infrastructure by mastering Bicep's declarative syntax.
• Create a system of parameters, conditions, and loops to deploy resources dynamically.
• Decompose complex deployments into Bicep modules that can be reused.
• Create CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Distribute to various environments to ensure uniformity in staging, production, and development.
• Master the art of handling deployment failures with rollback and rollforward strategies.
• Make use of Blue-Green Deployments to reduce update risk.
• Use Azure Key Vault to safely store sensitive information in Bicep templates.

Table of Content

1. Up and Running with ARM and JSON Syntax
2. Getting Started with Bicep
3. Bicep Syntax and Structure
4. Advanced Bicep Features
5. Modularizing Bicep Templates
6. Managing Parameters and Variables
7. Integration and Deployment Strategies