Medina / Schumann DevOps for SharePoint

With Packer, Terraform, Ansible, and Vagrant
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4842-3688-8
Verlag: APRESS
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, eBook

Deploy a SharePoint farm in a repeatable, predictable, and reliable fashion using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques to automate provisioning. Savvy IT pros will learn how to use DevOps practices and open source tools to greatly reduce costs, and streamline management operations for SharePoint farms deployed via Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or on premise.

DevOps for SharePoint

 will help you navigate the complex challenges of deploying and managing SharePoint Server farms. You will learn how to reduce time-consuming tasks and errors when generating development, testing, or production environments. And you will benefit from learning proven methods to apply Microsoft updates with minimal downtime and productivity loss. Whether you are a SharePoint architect, IT pro, or developer helping customers with the SharePoint platform, this book will teach you the most useful DevOps practices to tackle those issues and broaden your skill set.

What You’ll Learn

Understand the basics of the most popular open source tools—Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and Ansible—and how to use them in the context of deploying and scaling a SharePoint farm

Use Vagrant to build SharePoint development environments in less than an hour, and add automated testing

Use Packer to create a “golden image” with preconfigured settings, and then use it as the base image in your Terraform configuration for both AWS and Azure farms

Use Terraform to scale your SharePoint farm topology

Use Red Hat’s Ansible Playbooks to perform configuration management on your farmUse Terraform to deploy immutable infrastructure environments using IaC (Infrastructure as Code)Use InSpec 2.0 to stay in compliance by testing your cloud infrastructureUse Ansible to apply Microsoft updates and patchesWho This Book Is For

IT pros and developers whoare looking to expand their knowledge and take a modern approach by using open source technologies to work with Microsoft products. Experience installing SharePoint, and a basic understanding of either Azure or AWS, is helpful.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Medina, Oscar

Schumann, Ethan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Getting up and running – setup your environment .- Chapter 3: Build a Dev SharePoint Farm with Vagrant and ServerSpec.- Chapter 4: Provisioning the SharePoint Farm to Azure Using Terraform.- Chapter 5: Provisioning the SharePoint Farm to AWS using Terraform and Ansible.- Chapter 6: Scaling The Farm using Terraform and Ansible.- Chapter 7: Establishing an Enterprise Environment to Manage and Collaborate as a Team.

Über Autor(innen)

Oscar Medina
, CEO at SharePointAce LLC, is a multi-platform senior technologist, consultant, author, and speaker, with more than 16 years of experience in both startup and large enterprise environments. While an expert in all aspects of SharePoint, his tech experience runs the gamut—from mobile app development for iOS and Windows to web apps using modern frameworks. Prior to founding SharePointAce, he worked at Microsoft, guiding and supporting Fortune 1000 companies on the SharePoint platform. Oscar is passionate about all things Microsoft, including Azure, Office 365, SharePoint, and especially with how they are expedited and enabled with emerging and open source technologies.
Ethan Schumann 
is a Solutions Architect for Onica, a leading AWS Cloud Consulting Partner. He specializes in automation and DevOps transformations with a focus on enterprise implementations using cloud native services and modern tooling. He has experience designing and implementing varioustechnologies such as Kubernetes containerization, CI/CD constructs for various development workflows, and large-scale Microsoft products, including Sharepoint.