Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code

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

We will have the following chapters in this section:

• Chapter 1, DevOps Culture and Practices
• Chapter 2, Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
• Chapter 3, Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure
• Chapter 4, Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer