Practical gitops (APress)

Manage the state of the infrastructure deployed on cloud through a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is gaining popularity and developers today are deploying their complete production environments through IaC tools to cloud environments. However, it can become extremely difficult and time-consuming to manage the state of the infrastructure that has been deployed. Practical GitOps features practical examples like deploying a WordPress application on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Elastic File Service, and Relational Database Service as viable solutions to managing the process.Split into two parts, the first will focus around the practical, hands-on tasks involved like setting up WordPress on AWS using Terraform as well as exploring best practices regarding infrastructure management and exploring Kubernetes and GitHub Actions in relation to a multi-environment setting. The second will look at the challenges that developers and sysadmins face whilst deploying infrastructures onto cloud environments like authentication, authorization, security, back-end and disaster management.