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 farm Use Terraform
to deploy immutable infrastructure environments using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) Use InSpec
2.0 to stay in compliance by testing your cloud infrastructure Use Ansible to apply Microsoft
updates and patches Who This Book Is ForIT 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.
