Infrastructure as a Service: Modern IT infrastructures are integrated into the cloud, utilizing the data centers of Amazon, Microsoft, and others. This enables entirely new ways of working and promises effortless scalability and easy administration – but the devil is in the details! Kevin Welter and Daniel Stender will show you where AWS, Azure, and other providers can truly offer advantages, what problems may be lurking there, and how to properly utilize the services through numerous practical examples and guidelines in this manual.

Contents:

Public Cloud Computing: IaaS and PaaS
Tools and Skills for Cloud Engineers
Using IaaS Providers
Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Compute Engine, and others: Which provider is right for me?
Hybrid and Multicloud Computing
Automatically deploying cloud infrastructures
Configuring cloud infrastructures with Ansible
Testing servers
Monitoring with Prometheus
Programming resources

Expert reviews of the previous edition:

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IT Administrator: "Readers receive the tools they need to transition their previously local IT services. [...] Clear and detailed explanations!".