Azure Infrastructure as Code: With Arm Templates and Bicep - Softcover

Been, Henry; Keilholz, Eduard; Staal, Erwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617299421 ISBN 13: 9781617299421

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2022

Synopsis

Azure Infrastructure as Code is a comprehensive guide to seamlessly managing your application infrastructure with Azure's native IaC tools. The book is aimed at supporting collaboration between operations professionals and software developers, to help speed up and improve the quality of software delivery.

After you master the basics, you'll dive into niche and advanced topics such as testing, reusing templates between multiple teams, and how you can define policy as code. Discover cutting-edge Deployment Stacks, and how they can help you clean up unused resources, group resources in logical containers to help visualize potential changes, and build starting plateaus for other teams to work on.

About the Technology

Infrastructure as code does away with time-consuming manual tasks―no more detailed scripts for creating the correct database or virtual machine. Instead, Azure's native IaC tools create infrastructure from a declarative specification in JSON (ARM) or a domain-specific language (Bicep). They empower users to create or recreate complete infrastructures with just a line of code, as well as take advantage of automation tools like Github Actions or Azure Pipelines.

About this title

About the Author

Henry Been is a freelance DevOps and Azure architect and consultant, with 10 years of Azure experience. He has helped many of his customers adopt infrastructure as code practices, such as ARM templates. Henry is a regular conference speaker and enjoys creating online courses. In 2019 and 2020, Microsoft has recognized his community activities with the Microsoft MVP Award.

Erwin Staal is an Azure architect and DevOps consultant with more than 10 years of experience in both small and large organizations. As a DevOps consultant, he helps companies with the implementation of DevOps and continuous delivery.

Eduard Keilholz is a cloud solution architect who creates highly performant software. His focus is on the Microsoft development stack, mainly C# and the Microsoft Azure Cloud. He speaks at national and international conferences, and in 2020 he was recognized by Microsoft with the Microsoft MVP Award for Azure.

From the Back Cover

Azure Infrastructure as Code is a comprehensive guide to seamlessly managing your application infrastructure with Azure's native IaC tools. The book is aimed at supporting collaboration between operations professionals and software developers, to help speed up and improve the quality of software delivery. You'll be introduced to Azure Resource Manager templates and the Bicep domain-specific language, tools that make it a breeze to build declarative templates for Azure infrastructure.

After you master the basics, you'll dive into niche and advanced topics such as testing, reusing templates between multiple teams, and how you can define policy as code. Discover cutting-edge Deployment Stacks, and how they can help you clean up unused resources, group resources in logical containers to help visualize potential changes, and build starting plateaus for other teams to work on. You'll even build a complete CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, which can orchestrate the kind of complex deployment that spans multiple regions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617299421
• ISBN 13: 9781617299421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300