The Quick and Dirty Introduction to Software Configuration Management (Quick and Dirty Introduction Books)

Where should we even begin? Provisioning and configuring multiple remote servers and maintaining regular application updates is a challenge. Actually, it's many tough challenges, one on top of the other. As complexity increases and the pace of change builds, your only hope is some kind of automated orchestration. You're certainly not the first person to notice the problem. There are, in fact, so many solutions out there that finding and implementing the right one is a job all on its own. This short book will introduce you to the basics of software configuration management and provide you with the information you need to get started. Before long, you'll be applying the benefits of infrastructure automation to your own workflows. You'll learn about: Key tools like Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform Related trends like CI/CD and DevOps Integrations with major cloud platforms like AWS and Azure