Essays on Infrastructure-as-code

This is a collection of essays on repeatable infrastructure of all sizes and types for software engineering projects. It brings together different perspectives on a discipline that avoids the lengthy manuals and distils the essence of some standards and best practices that serve the professionals in this field. Infrastructure-as-code has become just as treasured as any high value assets as software expands its reach into almost all aspects of our daily activities starting from those dedicated to specific teams and boutique purposes to commercial heavy-duty deployments at cloud scale. We are increasingly relying on automation to automatically connect our world and more so with the public cloud as the ubiquitous and universal world's computer. As we have moved towards 100% automation, we are also increasingly asking for software-defined architectures and repeatable infrastructure and deployments. While vendors, providers and template language providers advance the front in the infrastructure-ascode, this book captures and presents some concepts that professionals continue to recognize.