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Published inNov 2023
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Damian Wojsław
Damian Wojsław
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz
Grzegorz Adamowicz
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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IaC versus Configuration as Code

You might be wondering, didn’t we just cover this in Chapter 11, when we spoke about Ansible? The answer is no, we didn’t. There’s a very distinctive difference between IaC and Configuration as Code (CaC). IaC tools are concerned with exactly that: infrastructure. This means networking, DNS names, routes, and servers (VM or physical) up to the installation of the operating system. CaC is concerned with what lives inside the operating system. People try to use one tool for everything, so you’ll see modules for Ansible that can configure switches and routers, but the tool shines best where it is intended to be used. Nobody is going to die if you mix these two, but your life will become more difficult.

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803245669

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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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