Oscar Medina & Ethan Schumann 
DevOps for SharePoint [PDF ebook] 
With Packer, Terraform, Ansible, and Vagrant

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

Dev Ops for Share Point will help you navigate the complex challenges of deploying and managing Share Point 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 Share Point architect, IT pro, or developer helping customers with the Share Point platform, this book will teach you the most useful Dev Ops 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 Share Point farm
  


• Use Vagrant to build Share Point 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 Share Point farm topology
  


• Use Red Hat’s Ansible Playbooks to perform configuration management on your farm


• Use Terraform to deploy immutable infrastructure environments using Ia C (Infrastructure as Code)


• Use In Spec 2.0 to stay in compliance by testing your cloud infrastructure


• Use Ansible to apply Microsoft updates and patches

Who 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 Share Point, and a basic understanding of either Azure or AWS, is helpful.

Зміст

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Getting up and running – setup your environment .- Chapter 3: Build a Dev Share Point Farm with Vagrant and Server Spec.- Chapter 4: Provisioning the Share Point Farm to Azure Using Terraform.- Chapter 5: Provisioning the Share Point 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.

Про автора

Oscar Medina, CEO at Share Point Ace 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 Share Point, his tech experience runs the gamut—from mobile app development for i OS and Windows to web apps using modern frameworks. Prior to founding Share Point Ace, he worked at Microsoft, guiding and supporting Fortune 1000 companies on the Share Point platform. Oscar is passionate about all things Microsoft, including Azure, Office 365, Share Point, 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 Dev Ops 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.