Azure Infrastructure as Code: With Arm Templates and Bicep
Author(s): Henry Been (Author), Eduard Keilholz (Author), Erwin Staal (Author)
- Publisher: Manning Publications
- Publication Date: 19 Sept. 2022
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 1617299421
- ISBN-13: 9781617299421
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Nothing else on the market covers ARM templates like “Azure Infrastructure as Code.” Stephen Goodman
“I wish I had had this book when we started using Azure but its still been very useful to confirm and sometimes expand my knowledge of Azure DEVOps, I will be requiring my team to read it.” Sebastian Rogers
“If you’re getting started with native Azure IaC tools, this is a great resource to learn fast.” Radhakrishna MV
“If you are an infrastructure engineer/application architect primarily workingwith Azure, this is for you. If you do stuff that touches Azure, the first few chapters will help you understand how Azure works.” Amanda Debler
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.
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.
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