CHAPTER 11
Automation
In this chapter, we will cover:
• The need for automation
• DevOps
• DevSecOps
• Command line access to environments
• Infrastructure as code
Almost everything we have been doing so far has been manual. This is not to say that we have been going out and physically constructing systems in the case of virtualized or cloud environments. Instead, we have been using some interfaces manually that trigger back-end automation. When we’ve created virtual machines through VMware ESXi: for instance, we took the manual steps of configuration through a web interface, but ESXi has done the rest of the work by creating the files the hypervisor uses to provision a virtual system that gets presented to the operating system. ...
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