Google, Amazon are managing myriads of servers across the world, you wonder how ? In this book we'll share recipes that will give you DC superpowers.

Site Reliability Engineer, Solution Architects, Cloud Engineers are all confronted to the challenge of building, scaling out and operating computing platforms to defeat the hardest IT challenges. If you are one of them, if you want to learn new powerful tricks, if you've been eaten by too much complexity or lost your mind in the process, this book could be for you.

You'll discover simple ways to assemble all the many required moving parts together to build a resilient, scalable and secure platform which will be based on the lessons learnt over the years on production infrastructures.

To keep up with the pace of innovation, your datacenter should be a living organism, future-proofed, that will adapt to the constant changes in IT, from bare-metal to Infrastructure or Container as a Service. To achieve this mission, you'll learn here how to model your infrastructure in a version control system, keep an audit trail of all the changes, make sure they are approved. And continuously integrate and deploy new features to quickly react to new business requirements. We'll also show you how to monitor the overall deployment without adding too much complexity.

As you may have understood by now, the secret lies into the way the overall infrastructure is modelled out of a single source of truth, this notion of Model Driven Architecture Is the essential concept of this book. I hope you'll like it.

An intermediate level on Linux, virtualization and OpenStack, and introductory level on configuration management solutions will help the reader to be most proficient in applying the recipes shared here