Provisioning and Lifecycle Management with Airship (eBook)

The Complete Guide for Developers and Engineers

William Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | 1. Auflage
250 Seiten
HiTeX Press (Verlag)
978-0-00-097406-8 (ISBN)

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'Provisioning and Lifecycle Management with Airship'
Provisioning and Lifecycle Management with Airship is an in-depth guide to mastering the complete lifecycle of cloud-native infrastructures using the Airship framework. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to Airship's architecture, including its modular projects-Deckhand, Shipyard, Promenade, and Armada-and explores the principles of declarative infrastructure management. Readers are guided through integrating Airship into complex environments alongside Kubernetes and OpenStack, understanding document-driven workflows, and participating in the vibrant Airship community.
Moving from foundational concepts to real-world application, the book offers practical strategies for designing multi-site, dynamic, and edge infrastructure blueprints. Coverage includes robust approaches to secrets management, configuration validation, and change control, as well as automated provisioning of bare metal servers and lifecycle operations such as monitoring health, firmware management, and secure decommissioning. Advanced topics explore orchestrated upgrades, federation patterns, remote management, and resilient disaster recovery across distributed cloud environments.
Security, compliance, and operational excellence are woven throughout, featuring chapters on access control, supply chain trust, auditability, and incident response. Complete with insights into observability, CI/CD integration, and DevOps automation, the book empowers readers to leverage Airship for consistent, scalable, and auditable deployments. The final chapters open doors to extensibility, plugin development, and next-generation use cases, making this essential reading for architects, operators, and developers driving innovation at the intersection of cloud, edge, and automation.

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Chapter 2
Deployment Design and Site Definition

Dive into the strategic art of blueprinting cloud-scale deployments with Airship. This chapter uncovers the advanced tools and design patterns enabling organizations to model, parameterize, and evolve infrastructure for diverse sites—from static data centers to ephemeral edge clouds. Gain insight into how templating, secrets management, and version control not only automate delivery but also guarantee integrity and auditability at every lifecycle phase.

2.1 Blueprinting Complex Infrastructure

Constructing scalable and reusable infrastructure blueprints forms a foundational pillar in enterprise-grade deployments. The principles underpinning these blueprints must address inherent variability in organizational environments while ensuring repeatability, compliance, and agility. To achieve this, infrastructure blueprints are architected using concepts of modularity and composability, transforming abstract organizational policies into explicit, manifest-driven site definitions that can be deployed consistently and managed efficiently.

At the core of blueprinting is an abstraction that decouples infrastructure components into discrete, manageable units. Modularity enables this division; each module encapsulates a defined piece of infrastructure functionality-be it networking, compute, storage, or security controls. By isolating these components, modules enhance maintainability and facilitate independent updates without disrupting the entire system. This isolation also allows focused testing and validation, a necessity in complex deployments to reduce configuration drift and unforeseen failures.

Composability extends modularity by enabling the assembly of modules into cohesive and customizable blueprints. Composable systems leverage well-defined interfaces and parameterization to fit diverse scenarios without redesigning the underlying modules. Parameters accommodate environmental variability such as region-specific networking settings, resource sizing, or regulatory constraints. This parameter-driven approach permits the same modules to serve multiple deployment contexts, significantly reducing duplication of effort while maintaining consistency.

Enterprise blueprints must explicitly incorporate organizational policies, which often manifest as security baselines, compliance mandates, or operational standards. Translating these abstract policies into executable definitions is realized through manifest-driven configurations. Manifests, typically expressed in declarative languages such as JSON, YAML, or domain-specific languages, specify the desired end state of infrastructure components. They capture both the structural configuration and the semantic constraints that reflect policy requirements. For instance, a manifest might enforce encryption settings on storage modules or define network segmentation to comply with data governance policies.

The process of blueprinting begins with decomposing infrastructure architecture into logical components aligned with business functions and technical domains. Each component is developed as a reusable module with clear inputs and outputs-inputs being configuration parameters and outputs representing provisioned resources or metadata exposed for integration. Dependencies between modules are explicitly managed to define orchestration order and information flow.

modules: 
  - name: network_segment 
    parameters: 
      cidr_block: "10.0.0.0/16" 
      environment: "production" 
      enable_firewall: true 
    resources: 
      vpc: 
        type: aws_vpc 
        properties: 
          cidr_block: ${cidr_block} 
          enable_dns_support: true 
      firewall: 
        type: aws_security_group 
        properties: 
          enabled: ${enable_firewall} 
          rules: 
...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.7.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
• ISBN-10: 0-00-097406-4 / 0000974064
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-097406-8 / 9780000974068