Amazon Web Services Guide de l'administrateur système

by Federico Lucifredi

Apprenez à concevoir det déployer des applications mettant en oeuvres les outils du cloud AWS. Le Cloud AWS est une plateforme de services développée par le Amazon. AWS, pour Amazon Web Services regroupe plus de 50 services répartis en diverses catégories telles que le stockage cloud, la puissance de calcul, l'analyse de données, l'intelligence artificielle ou même le développement de jeux vidéo. Ce livre va vous donner toutes les clés qui vous permettront la mise en oeuvre des différents services proposés afin de déployer vos applications à travers le cloud d'Amazon.
Le cloud d'Amazon offre un niveau de sécurité et une souplesse inégalée dans le stockage et le traitement des données. Dans ce livre vous apprendrez entre autres à :
Utiliser EC2 ou CloudFormation
Déployer et gérer vos applications avec les outils AWS
Automatiser la configuration et la gestion AWS avec Python et Puppet
Gagner du temps en créant des composants réutilisables
Configurer un service DNS avec Route 53

Collection O'Reilly

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Computers, Technical

360 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2014

About the author

Federico Lucifredi was the lead Product Manager for Ubuntu Server, Amazon Web Services' most popular operating system. While at Canonical, Federico led the Certified Public Cloud program, ensuring the seamless integration of Ubuntu into AWS and other public clouds. He is currently the Ceph Product Management Director at IBM and Red Hat, and can be reached on Twitter as @0xF2.

Federico is a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events.

Reviews

[Stefan Kanev · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not a bad way to learn something about AWS, but would definitely recommend a different resource instead.

First and foremost, it's already dated. There's a second edition coming in 2022 that may solve this issue, but that remains to be seen.

Second, and more importantly, it's all over the place with its examples.
- It talks way too much about puppet, which is great if you're into puppet, and wasteful if you know you're never gonna be into puppet.
- It talks way too much about boto (a Python AWS library), which is great if you're into it, and again, a waste if you're not.

As somebody who would not use Puppet and who wouldn't use Python/Boto either, that's just a what of wasted space on ideas I don't care about and a missed opportunity to see how those things would have been done in the absence of those tools.

When the authors use an example of how to use bits of AWS, they either go for an overly complicated real setup with something like Mezzanine CMS (who outside of the Django community has even heard about it?) or an even more complicated abstract setup ("here's what you can do for a very resilient PostgreSQL, but we're just gonna give you keywords and vague descriptions, not actually something you can run"). I feel they should have kept examples much simpler. And that if they wanted to stick to more complicated examples, at least they should have given you a bunch of working CloudFormation stacks and walked you through them.

Anyway, I got something out of this book, but it feels I could have gotten the same thing from a book 1/3 the size. It definitely does not feel like the best book on AWS.

[David Robillard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Before reading this book, I had only vague notions of what AWS had to offer. Now I actually use AWS for work, which is awsome. I almost gave it 5 stars, but there is too much Puppet related info in there that IMHO are not required. Especially if you're not using Puppet. On the other hand, if you use Puppet, then you'll be quite happy. A clear read if you'd like to leverage AWS.

[Daniel Rankov · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is very interesting with great links to resources. The information is laied in very catchy way. I liked the IAM tricks most. I was thinking of giving 5 stars, but puppet modules for AWS and building ELK stack while such a service exists is what I conceptually did not like.

Edit: I reread the book, puppet modules make sense now.

[Leandro López · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very easy to read and filled with concepts and examples. Sadly, many of those examples are more focused in Python scripts or Puppet modules rather than AWS CLI, which would have made this book a 5-stars book.

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read a prepublished version. There were some graphics errors but it seems promising.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was not for me. While it provided good coverage of the AWS components, I found it crowded with unhelpful code examples, especially around Puppet, and short of clarifying discussions. For example, I wanted to write CloudFormation stacks to set up access for development environments at work. After reading the initial chapters, I was left with a very incomplete and unhelpful view that I could do this by crafting and matching on ARNs. It took a huge amount of trial and error to undo this mistaken view and come to another solution. The book could have helped with this if it had been more interested in talking about the details of implementation patterns.