Build applications and infrastructures that leverage Function-as-a-Service and Docker Key Features - Implement containerization in Serverless/FaaS environments - Utilize Docker as a functional unit of work for Serverless/FaaS platforms - Use Docker as a portable infrastructure for Serverless Applications Book DescriptionServerless applications have gained a lot of popularity among developers and are currently the buzzwords in the tech market. Docker and serverless are two terms that go hand-in-hand. This book will start by explaining serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) concepts, and why they are important. Then, it will introduce the concepts of containerization and how Docker fits into the Serverless ideology. It will explore the architectures and components of three major Docker-based FaaS platforms, how to deploy and how to use their CLI. Then, this book will discuss how to set up and operate a production-grade Docker cluster. We will cover all concepts of FaaS frameworks with practical use cases, followed by deploying and orchestrating these serverless systems using Docker. Finally, we will also explore advanced topics and prototypes for FaaS architectures in the last chapter. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build and deploy your own FaaS platform using Docker. What you will learn Learn what Serverless and FaaS applications are Get acquainted with the architectures of three major serverless systems Explore how Docker technologies can help develop Serverless applications Create and maintain FaaS infrastructures Set up Docker infrastructures to serve as on-premises FaaS infrastructures Define functions for Serverless applications with Docker containers Who this book is forIf you are a Developer, a Docker Engineer, a DevOps Engineer, or any stakeholder interested in learning the use of Docker on Serverless environments then this book is for you.

Text processing and pattern matching simplified Key Features -Master the fastest and most elegant big data munging language -Implement text processing and pattern matching using the advanced features of AWK and GAWK -Implement debugging and inter-process communication using GAWK Book DescriptionAWK is one of the most primitive and powerful utilities which exists in all Unix and Unix-like distributions. It is used as a command-line utility when performing a basic text-processing operation, and as programming language when dealing with complex text-processing and mining tasks. With this book, you will have the required expertise to practice advanced AWK programming in real-life examples. The book starts off with an introduction to AWK essentials. You will then be introduced to regular expressions, AWK variables and constants, arrays and AWK functions and more. The book then delves deeper into more complex tasks, such as printing formatted output in AWK, control flow statements, GNU's implementation of AWK covering the advanced features of GNU AWK, such as network communication, debugging, and inter-process communication in the GAWK programming language which is not easily possible with AWK. By the end of this book, the reader will have worked on the practical implementation of text processing and pattern matching using AWK to perform routine tasks. What you will learn -Create and use different expressions and control flow statements in AWK -Use Regular Expressions with AWK for effective text-processing -Use built-in and user-defined variables to write AWK programs -Use redirections in AWK programs and create structured reports -Handle non-decimal input, 2-way inter-process communication with Gawk -Create small scripts to reformat data to match patterns and process texts Who this book is forThis book is for developers or analysts who are inclined to learn how to do text processing and data extraction in a Unix-like environment. Basic understanding of Linux operating system and shell scripting will help you to get the most out of the book.

Explore the high-in demand core DevOps strategies with powerful DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Chef Key Features Get acquainted with methodologies and tools of the DevOps framework Perform continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and monitoring using DevOps tools Explore popular tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book Book DescriptionDevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aim sat software development and operation. Continuous integration is a cornerstone technique of DevOps that merges software code updates from developers into a shared central mainline. This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how toper form continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. You will explore DevOps process maturity frameworks and progression models with checklist templates for each phase of DevOps. You will also be familiar with agile terminology, methodology, and the benefits accrued by an organization by adopting it. You will also get acquainted with popular tools such as Git, Jenkins ,Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on.You will learn configuration, automation, and the implementation of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible. This book is ideal for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. What you will learn Get familiar with life cycle models, maturity states, progression and best practices of DevOps frameworks Learn to set up Jenkins and integrate it with Git Know how to build jobs and perform testing with Jenkins Implement infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible Understand continuous monitoring process with tools such as Splunk and Nagios Learn how Splunk improves the code quality Who this book is forThis book is for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps.

Delve deep into various security aspects of AWS to build and maintain a secured environment Key Features Learn to secure your network, infrastructure, data, and applications in AWS cloud Use AWS managed security services to automate security Dive deep into various aspects such as the security model, compliance, access management and much more to build and maintain a secured environment Explore Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and its components Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book Book DescriptionWith organizations moving their workloads, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud at an unprecedented pace, security of all these resources has been a paradigm shift for all those who are responsible for security; experts, novices, and apprentices alike. This book focuses on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security. Starting with an introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to secure your AWS VPC, you will quickly explore various components that make up VPC such as subnets, security groups, various gateways, and many more. You will also learn to protect data in the AWS platform for various AWS services by encrypting and decrypting data in AWS. You will also learn to secure web and mobile applications in AWS cloud. This book is ideal for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. What you will learn Get familiar with VPC components, features, and benefits Learn to create and secure your private network in AWS Explore encryption and decryption fundamentals Understand monitoring, logging, and auditing in AWS Ensure data security in AWS Secure your web and mobile applications in AWS Learn security best practices for IAM, VPC, shared security responsibility model, and so on Who this book is forThis book is for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations.

Deploy and manage VMware vSphere 6.5 components with ease. Key Features Simplified and to-the-point theory and practical recipes to deploy and manage vSphere 6.5 Discover the best ways to deploy stateless and stateful ESXi hosts and upgrade them Storage and network resource management Certificate management using VMCA Monitor the performance of a vSphere environment. Book DescriptionVMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and life cycle management of the infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment. The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources. Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure. What you will learn Upgrade your existing vSphere environment or perform a fresh deployment Automate the deployment and management of large sets of ESXi hosts in your vSphere Environment Configure and manage FC, iSCSI, and NAS storage, and get more control over how storage resources are allocated and managed Configure vSphere networking by deploying host-wide and data center-wide switches in your vSphere environment Configure high availability on a host cluster and learn how to enable the fair distribution and utilization of compute resources Patch and upgrade the vSphere environment Handle certificate request generation and renew component certificates Monitor performance of a vSphere environment Who this book is forIf you are a system administrator, support professional, or anyone interested in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment, then this book is for you. This task-oriented reference guide will also benefit consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere 6.5 environments.

Viktor Farcic's latest book, The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, shows you how to successfully integrate Docker Swarm into your DevOps toolset. About This Book * Expand your DevOps Toolkit with the DevOps thought leader, Viktor Farcic * Build, test, deploy, and monitor services inside Docker Swarm clusters * Translate your understanding to different hosting providers like AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean * Go beyond simple deployment to explore how to create a continuous deployment process * Extend the deep understanding you gained from Viktor's DevOps 2.0 Toolkit book Who This Book Is For This book is for professionals interested in the full microservices life cycle combined with continuous deployment and containers. Target audience could be architects who want to know how to design their systems around microservices. It could be DevOps wanting to know how to apply modern configuration management practices and continuously deploy applications packed in containers. It is for developers who would like to take the process back into their hands as well as for managers who would like to gain a better understanding of the process used to deliver software from the beginning to the end. This book is for everyone wanting to know more about the software development life cycle starting from requirements and design, through the development and testing all the way until deployment and post-deployment phases. We'll create the processes taking into account the best practices developed by and for some of the biggest companies. What You Will Learn * Learn all aspects of Docker Swarm from building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters, available since Docker 1.12. * Master the deeper logic of DevOps with Viktor, so that you can successfully apply that logic across any specific set of tools you're working with. * Translate a deep understanding to different hosting providers like AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, among others. * You'll go beyond simple deployment: you will explore with Viktor how to create a continuous deployment process. Accomplish zero-downtime deployments, and what to do in case of a failover. * Know how to run services at scale, how to monitor the systems, and how to make it heal itself. In Detail Viktor Farcic's latest book, The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, takes you deeper into one of the major subjects of his international best seller, The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit, and shows you how to successfully integrate Docker Swarm into your DevOps toolset. Viktor shares with you his expert knowledge in all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters. You'll go through all the tools required for running a cluster. You'll travel through the whole process with clusters running locally on a laptop. Once you're confident with that outcome, Viktor shows you how to translate your experience to different hosting providers like AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean. Viktor has updated his DevOps 2.0 framework in this book to use the latest and greatest features and techniques introduced in Docker. We'll go through many practices and even more tools. While there will be a lot of theory, this is a hands-on book. You won't be able to complete it by reading it on the metro on your way to work. You'll have to read this book while in front of the computer and get your hands dirty. Style and approach We'll go through many practices and even more tools. While there will be a lot of theory, this is a hands-on book. You'll have to read this book while in front of the computer and get your hands dirty. The goal is not to master one particular set of tools, but to learn the logic behind them so that you can apply it to your job in various contexts.

Deliver great business value by adopting the virtualization platform VMware vSphere 6.5, from the design to the deployment About This Book * This new edition is based on vSphere 6.5 and has described new features in different areas, including management, security, scalability, availability and so on. * Design, deploy and manage VMware datacenters * Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease. Who This Book Is For If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn * Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.5 functionalities * Design and plan a virtualization environment based on vSphere 6.5 * Manage and administer a vSphere 6.5 environment and resources * Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams (along with use of the vSphere 6 documentation) * Implement different migration techniques to move your workload across different environments. * Save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. In Detail VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You'll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you'll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you'll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we'll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you'll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management. Style and Approach This book acts as a reference guide providing real-world scenarios and a possible baseline for each virtualization project based on VMware vSphere.

Manage and administer your environment with ease About This Book * Get your hands on learning the fundamentals to managing and administering Windows Server 2016. * A step-by-step guide that will help you develop necessary skills and knowledge to manage an enterprise environment. * Learn to implement strong networking and security practices into your Windows Server environment. Who This Book Is For If you are a System administrator or an IT professional interested in configuring and deploying Windows Server 2016 then, this book is for you. This book will also help readers clear the MTA: Windows Server Administration Fundamentals: 98-365 exam. What You Will Learn * Become familiar with Windows Server OS concepts * Learn how to install Windows Server 2016 * Learn how to install device drivers and run services in Windows Server 2016 * Learn how to add and install roles in Windows Server 2016 * Learn how to apply GPO to your Windows Server 2016 environment * Learn how to tune, maintain, update, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2016 * Prepare for the MTA 98-365 exam In Detail Windows Server 2016 is the server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, developed concurrently with Windows 10. This book is designed to get you started with Windows Server 2016. It will prepare you for your MTA 98-365 exam. With step-by-step instructions driven by targeted, easy-to-understand graphics, you will be able to understand the roles, features, functions, and quirks of Windows Server 2016. The book begins with the basics of Windows Server 2016, which includes the installation process and basic configuration. You will then move on to roles and features such as Active Directory, Hyper-V, Remote Access, Storage, and Printer. With the help of real-world examples, you will get to grips with the fundamentals of Windows Server 2016, which will help you solve difficult tasks the easy way. Later, the book also shows you maintenance and troubleshooting tasks, where with the help of best practices you will be able to manage Windows Server 2016 with ease. Each chapter ends with a questionnaire to ensure you make the best use of the content provided. By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge required to administer and manage Windows Server environments. Style and approach With step-by-step instructions driven by targeted, easy-to-understand graphics, this book explains and shows you how to use the roles and features, functions, and quirks of the Windows Server 2016. The chapters are presented in a step by step format accompanied by graphics wherever applicable.

Explore Implementation of core kernel subsystems About This Book * Master the design, components, and structures of core kernel subsystems * Explore kernel programming interfaces and related algorithms under the hood * Completely updated material for the 4.12.10 kernel Who This Book Is For If you are a kernel programmer with a knowledge of kernel APIs and are looking to build a comprehensive understanding, and eager to explore the implementation, of kernel subsystems, this book is for you. It sets out to unravel the underlying details of kernel APIs and data structures, piercing through the complex kernel layers and gives you the edge you need to take your skills to the next level. What You Will Learn * Comprehend processes and fles-the core abstraction mechanisms of the Linux kernel that promote effective simplification and dynamism * Decipher process scheduling and understand effective capacity utilization under general and real-time dispositions * Simplify and learn more about process communication techniques through signals and IPC mechanisms * Capture the rudiments of memory by grasping the key concepts and principles of physical and virtual memory management * Take a sharp and precise look at all the key aspects of interrupt management and the clock subsystem * Understand concurrent execution on SMP platforms through kernel synchronization and locking techniques In Detail Mastering Linux Kernel Development looks at the Linux kernel, its internal arrangement and design, and various core subsystems, helping you to gain significant understanding of this open source marvel. You will look at how the Linux kernel, which possesses a kind of collective intelligence thanks to its scores of contributors, remains so elegant owing to its great design. This book also looks at all the key kernel code, core data structures, functions, and macros, giving you a comprehensive foundation of the implementation details of the kernel's core services and mechanisms. You will also look at the Linux kernel as well-designed software, which gives us insights into software design in general that are easily scalable yet fundamentally strong and safe. By the end of this book, you will have considerable understanding of and appreciation for the Linux kernel. Style and approach Each chapter begins with the basic conceptual know-how for a subsystem and extends into the details of its implementation. We use appropriate code excerpts of critical routines and data structures for subsystems.

Administer, configure, and monitor Junos in your organization About This Book * Get well acquainted with security and routing policies to identify the use of firewall filters. * Learn to provide end-user authentication and protect each layer in an enterprise network. * A recipe-based guide that will help you configure and monitor Junos OS and basic device operations. Who This Book Is For This book targets network engineers, developers, support personals, and administrators who are working on devices running Junos OS and are looking at automating their organisation's operations. Some understanding about Junos would be necessary What You Will Learn * Start using NETCONF RPC standard and understand its usefulness in programming JUNOS * Write SLAX scripts to respond to events in the JUNOS environment * Automate JUNOS with PyEZ * Deal with events in the JUNOS environment, and writing response handlers to deal with them * Make the most of automation technologies to help with maintenance and monitoring of JUNOS * Use the Ansible framework to extend the automation functionality of Junos In Detail The JUNOS Automation Cookbook is a companion guide for the complex field of automating tasks on JUNOS devices. With a foundation in industry-standrd XML, JUNOS provides an ideal environment for programmatic interation, allowing you to build upon the capabilities provided by Juniper, with your own original code. You will begin by learning about, and setting up, the industry-standard NETCONF remote procedure call mechanisms on your device. After initial setup, you'll walk through SLAX - Juniper's foundation scripting language - for manipulating XML representations of JUNOS concepts and elements. You'll learn how to write your own SLAX scripts to customise the operating environment, and also how to write proactive event handlers that deal with situations as they happen. You'll then delve into PyEZ - Juniper's bridging framework to make automation accessible to Python code - allowing you to build automation applications in the popular scripting language. You'll witness some examples of how to write applications that can monitor configuration changes, implement BGP security policies and implement ad-hoc routing protocols, for those really tricky situations. You'll also leaarn how asynchronous I/O frameworks like Node.js can be used to implement automation applications that present an acceptable web interface. Along with way, you'll explore how to make use of the latest RESTful APIs that JUNOS provides, how to visualize aspects of your JUNOS network, and how to integrate your automation capabilities with enterprise-wide orchestration systems like Ansible. By the end of the book, you'll be able to tackle JUNOS automation challenges with confidence and understanding, and without hassle. Style and Approach A guide that will cover all the automation tools along with steps on leveraging these tools

Plan, design, and deploy System Center Configuration Manager 1706 like never before, regardless of how complex your infrastructure is About This Book * The most up-to-date resource on deploying or migrating to System Center Configuration Manager 1706 within your IT infrastructure * Plan, design, and deploy ConfigMgr 1706 with ease, both on primary and multiple-hierarchy sites * Master the new features of ConfigMgr 1706, including Windows 10 support Who This Book Is For If you are a system engineer or an administrator planning to deploy Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 1706, then this book is for you. This book will also benefit system administrators who are responsible for designing and deploying one or more System CenterConfiguration Manager 1706 sites in their new or existing systems. What You Will Learn * Install ConfigMgr servers and the necessary roles * Design and scale ConfigMgr environments * Configure and administrate essential ConfigMgr roles and features * Create software packages using .msi and .exe files * Deliver detailed reports with an automatic patching process * Apply proper hardening on your deployment and secure workstations * Deploy operating systems and updates leveraging ConfigMgr mechanisms * Create high-availability components using the built-in mechanism for backup and recovery In Detail It becomes important to plan, design, and deploy configurations when administrators know that Configuration Manager interacts with a number of infrastructure components such as Active Directory Domain Services, network protocols, Windows Server services, and so on. Via real-world-world deployment scenarios, this book will help you implement a single primary site or multiples sites. You will be able to efficiently plan and deploy a multiple-site hierarchy such as central administration site. Next, you will learn various methods to plan and deploy Configuration Manager clients, secure them and make the most of new features offered through ConfigMgr 1706 like compliance, deploying updates operating systems to the endpoints. Then, this book will show you how to install, configure, and run SQL reports to extract information. Lastly, you will also learn how to create and manage users access in an ConfigMgr environment By the end of this book, you will have learned to use the built-in mechanism to back up and restore data and also design maintenance plan. Style and approach This step-by-step guide teaches you cool ways to plan, deploy, and configure ConfigMgr 1706. This tutorial, which complements the release of ConfigMgr 1706 with a refreshing new approach and expert guidance, will teach you everything you need to know about the essentials of server.

A Guide to managing servers and automation About This Book * Breeze through Puppet's key features and performance improvements to bring real advantages to your IT infrastructure * Discover Puppet best practices to help you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls * Examples to help you get to grips with Puppet and succeed with everyday IT automation Who This Book Is For This book targets experienced IT professionals and new Puppet uses, who will learn all they need to know to go from installation to advanced automation. Get a rapid introduction to the essential topics and learn how to build best practices for advanced automation with Puppet. What You Will Learn * Understand declarative configuration management * Make use of GIT-based deployment workflows * Extend Factor with secure elements * Create modular and reusable Puppet code * Extend your code base with publicly available Puppet modules * Separate logic from data by using Hiera * Understand and develop Puppet Roles and Profiles In Detail Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control over what you do to each Puppet Agent in a network, and when and how you do it. In this age of digital delivery and ubiquitous Internet presence, it's becoming increasingly important to implement scaleable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the system that runs it. This book gets you started quickly with Puppet and its tools in the right way. It highlights improvements in Puppet and provides solutions for upgrading. It starts with a quick introduction to Puppet in order to quickly get your IT automation platform in place. Then you learn about the Puppet Agent and its installation and configuration along with Puppet Server and its scaling options. The book adopts an innovative structure and approach, and Puppet is explained with flexible use cases that empower you to manage complex infrastructures easily. Finally, the book will take readers through Puppet and its companion tools such as Facter, Hiera, and R10k and how to make use of tool chains. Style and approach This book aims to impart all the knowledge required to tap into not only the basics of Puppet, but also its core. The basic ideas and principles of Puppet-based designs are explored and explained. Sophisticated tools are presented to enable you to use Puppet efficiently and productively.

Over 50 recipes to help you build applications hosted on Serverless architecture using Azure Functions. About This Book * Enhance Azure Functions with continuous deployment using Visual Studio Team Services * Learn to deploy and manage cost-effective and highly available serverless applications using Azure Functions * This recipe-based guide will teach you to build a robust serverless environment Who This Book Is For If you are a Cloud administrator, architect, or developer who wants to build scalable systems and deploy serverless applications with Azure functions, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge and hands-on experience with core services of Microsoft Azure is required. What You Will Learn * Develop different event-based handlers supported by serverless architecture supported by Microsoft Cloud Platform - Azure * Integrate Azure Functions with different Azure Services to develop Enterprise-level applications * Get to know the best practices in organizing and refactoring the code within the Azure functions * Test, troubleshoot, and monitor the Azure functions to deliver high-quality, reliable, and robust cloud-centric applications * Automate mundane tasks at various levels right from development to deployment and maintenance * Learn how to develop statefulserverless applications and also self-healing jobs using DurableFunctions In Detail Microsoft provides a solution to easily run small segment of code in the Cloud with Azure Functions. Azure Functions provides solutions for processing data, integrating systems, and building simple APIs and microservices. The book starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases on benefits and key features of Azure Functions. Then, we'll deep dive into the core aspects of Azure Functions such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. Moving on, you'll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure functions, and providing continuous integration and continous deployment with Visual Studio Team Services. It also provides hands-on steps and tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases, to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. Finally, you'll see how to manage Azure functions, providing enterprise-level security and compliance to your serverless code architecture. By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required to work with serverless code architecture, providing continuous delivery to your users. Style and approach This recipe-based guide explains the different features of Azure Function by taking a real-world application related to a specific domain. You will learn how to implement automation and DevOps and discover industry best practices to develop applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure functions.

Over 50 recipes to drive IoT innovation with Microsoft Azure About This Book * Build secure and scalable IoT solutions with Azure IoT platform * Learn techniques to build end to end IoT solutions leveraging the Azure IoT platform * Filled with practical recipes to help you increase connectivity and automation across IoT devices Who This Book Is For If you are an application developer and want to build robust and secure IoT solution for your organization using Azure IoT, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn * Build IoT Solutions using Azure IoT & Services * Learn device configuration and communication protocols * Understand IoT Suite and Pre-configured solutions * Manage Secure Device communications * Understand Device management, alerts * Introduction with IoT Analytics, reference IoT Architectures * Reference Architectures from Industry * Pre-Configured IoT Suite solutions In Detail Microsoft's end-to-end IoT platform is the most complete IoT offering, empowering enterprises to build and realize value from IoT solutions efficiently. It is important to develop robust and reliable solutions for your organization to leverage IoT services. This book focuses on how to start building custom solutions using the IoT hub or the preconfigured solution of Azure IoT suite. As a developer, you will be taught how to connect multiple devices to the Azure IoT hub, develop, manage the IoT hub service and integrate the hub with cloud. We will be covering REST APIs along with HTTP, MQTT and AMQP protocols. It also helps you learn Pre-Configured IoT Suite solution. Moving ahead we will be covering topics like:-Process device-to-cloud messages and cloud-to-device messages using .Net-Direct methods and device management-Query Language, Azure IoT SDK for .Net-Creating and managing, Securing IoT hub, IoT Suite and many more. We will be using windows 10 IoT core, Visual Studio, universal Windows platform. At the end, we will take you through IoT analytics and provide a demo of connecting real device with Azure IoT. Style and approach A set of exciting recipes of using Microsoft Azure IoT more effectively.

Your one stop guide to making the most out of Bash programming About This Book * From roots to leaves, learn how to program in Bash and automate daily tasks, pouring some spice in your scripts * Daemonize a script and make a real service of it, ensuring it's available at any time to process user-fed data or commands * This book provides functional examples that show you practical applications of commands Who This Book Is For If you're a power user or system administrator involved in writing Bash scripts to automate tasks, then this book is for you. This book is also ideal for advanced users who are engaged in complex daily tasks. What You Will Learn * Understand Bash right from the basics and progress to an advanced level * Customise your environment and automate system routine tasks * Write structured scripts and create a command-line interface for your scripts * Understand arrays, menus, and functions * Securely execute remote commands using ssh * Write Nagios plugins to automate your infrastructure checks * Interact with web services, and a Slack notification script * Find out how to execute subshells and take advantage of parallelism * Explore inter-process communication and write your own daemon In Detail System administration is an everyday effort that involves a lot of tedious tasks, and devious pits. Knowing your environment is the key to unleashing the most powerful solution that will make your life easy as an administrator, and show you the path to new heights. Bash is your Swiss army knife to set up your working or home environment as you want, when you want. This book will enable you to customize your system step by step, making your own real, virtual, home out of it. The journey will take you swiftly through the basis of the shell programming in Bash to more interesting and challenging tasks. You will be introduced to one of the most famous open source monitoring systems-Nagios, and write complex programs with it in any languages. You'll see how to perform checks on your sites and applications. Moving on, you'll discover how to write your own daemons so you can create your services and take advantage of inter-process communication to let your scripts talk to each other. So, despite these being everyday tasks, you'll have a lot of fun on the way. By the end of the book, you will have gained advanced knowledge of Bash that will help you automate routine tasks and manage your systems. Style and approach This book presents step-by-step instructions and expert advice on working with Bash and writing scripts. Starting from the basics, this book serves as a reference manual where you can find handy solutions and advice to make your scripts flexible and powerful.