Create unique and amazing projects by using the powerful combination of Yocto and Raspberry Pi About This Book * Set up and configure the Yocto Project efficiently with Raspberry Pi * Deploy multimedia applications from existing Yocto/OE layers * An easy-to-follow guide to utilize your custom recipes on your Raspberry Pi Who This Book Is For If you are a student or a developer of embedded software, embedded Linux engineer or embedded systems in competence with Raspberry Pi and want to discover the Yocto Project, then this book is for you. Experience with Yocto is not needed. What You Will Learn * Explore the basic concept of Yocto's build system and how it is organized in order to use it efficiently with Raspberry Pi * Generate your first image with Yocto for the Raspberry Pi * Understand how to customize your Linux kernel within the Yocto Project * Customize your image in order to integrate your own applications * Write your own recipes for your graphical applications * Integrate a custom layer for the Raspberry Pi In Detail The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation workgroup, which produces tools (SDK) and processes (configuration, compilation, installation) that will enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded software, independent of the architecture of embedded software (Raspberry Pi, i.MX6, and so on). It is a powerful build system that allows you to master your personal or professional development. This book presents you with the configuration of the Yocto Framework for the Raspberry Pi, allowing you to create amazing and innovative projects using the Yocto/OpenEmbedded eco-system. It starts with the basic introduction of Yocto's build system, and takes you through the setup and deployment steps for Yocto. It then helps you to develop an understanding of Bitbake (the task scheduler), and learn how to create a basic recipe through a GPIO application example. You can then explore the different types of Yocto recipe elements (LICENSE, FILES, SRC_URI, and so on). Next, you will learn how to customize existing recipes in Yocto/OE layers and add layers to your custom environment (qt5 for example). Style and approach A step by step guide covering the fundamentals to create amazing new projects with Raspberry Pi and Yocto.

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.

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.

A fast-paced administrator's guide to Alfresco from the administration, managing, and high-level design perspectives About This Book * Understand system capabilities in order to make informed and appropriate decisions about its administration * Manage users, groups, email, file systems, and transformer availability using Alfresco * Use Alfresco to capture and efficiently manage information about repositories, servers, and statistics Who This Book Is For The target audience would be users with a basic knowledge of Content Management System, and also users who want to understand Alfresco from the administration and high-level design perspectives. What You Will Learn * Understand Alfresco's architecture and important building blocks * Learn to install Alfresco on various application servers such as Tomcat , JBoss, and WebLogic. * Become familiar with various configurations in Alfresco such as databases, filesystems, email, and audits * Administrate Alfresco using the Explorer Admin Console, Share Admin Console, and Workflow Admin Console * Understand how to integrate LDAP and Active Directory with Alfresco for centralized user management * Learn how Alfresco environments can be clustered for high availability * Fully understand how Alfresco stores content and easily retrieve any information from Alfresco * Monitor and manage Alfresco systems in production In Detail Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system for Windows and Linux-like operating systems. The year-on-year growth of business connections, contacts, and communications is expanding enterprise boundaries more than ever before. Alfresco enables organizations to collaborate more effectively, improve business process efficiency, and ensure information governance. The basic purpose of Alfresco is to help users to capture and manage information in a better way. It helps you capture, organize, and share binary files. This book will cover the basic building blocks of an Alfresco system, how the components fit together, and the information required to build a system architecture. This book will also focus on security aspects of Alfresco. such as authentication, troubleshooting, managing permissions, and so on. It will also focus on managing content and storage, indexing and searches, setting up clustering for high availability, and so forth. Style and approach A step-by-step guide to understanding the Alfresco system and making informed and appropriate decisions about administration.

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.

Design, build, and automate 10 real-world OpenStack administrative tasks with Ansible About This Book * Automate real-world OpenStack cloud operator administrative tasks * Construct a collection of automation code to save time on managing your OpenStack cloud * Use this step-by-step tutorial to automate such tasks with Ansible Who This Book Is For If you are an OpenStack-based cloud operator and/or infrastructure administrator and are interested in automating administrative functions, then this book is exactly what you are looking for. Having a functioning OpenStack environment is helpful, but most certainly not necessary. What You Will Learn * Efficiently execute OpenStack administrative tasks * Familiarize yourself with how Ansible works and assess the defined best practices * Create Ansible playbooks and roles * Automate tasks to customize your OpenStack cloud * Review OpenStack automation considerations when automating administrative tasks * Examine and automate advanced OpenStack tasks and designated use cases * Get a high-level overview of OpenStack and the current production-ready projects * Deep dive into OpenStack CLI tools and find out how to use them In Detail Most organizations are seeking methods to improve business agility because they have realized just having a cloud is not enough. Being able to improve application deployments, reduce infrastructure downtime, and eliminate daily manual tasks can only be accomplished through some sort of automation. Packed with real-world OpenStack administrative tasks, this book will walk you through working examples and explain how these tasks can be automated using one of the most popular open source automation tools-Ansible. We will start with a brief overview of OpenStack and Ansible and highlight some best practices. Each chapter will provide an introduction to handling various Cloud Operator administration tasks such as creating multiple users/tenants, setting up Multi-Tenant Isolation, customizing your clouds quotas, taking instance snapshots, evacuating compute hosts for maintenance, and running cloud health checks, and a step-by-step tutorial on how to automate these tasks with Ansible. Style and approach This easy-to-follow reference guide is packed with examples of real-world OpenStack administration tasks; each task is explained in detail and then subsequently turned into automation code.

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Discover over 100 practical recipes to help you master the art of IT service management for your organization About This Book * Unleash the capabilities of Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager * Master the skills of configuring, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting your Service Manager 2016 * This book contains practical recipes that leverage the key and newly added features and functionalities of Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Who This Book Is For This book will be useful to IT professionals including SCSM administrators who want to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2016 and understand how to solve specific problems and scenarios that arise. It will also be useful to users of Service Manager 2012 who want to learn about the new features and capabilities of the Service Manager 2016 release. It will be ideal if you have Service Manager experience as well as experience with other System Center products. What You Will Learn * See a practical implementation of the ITSM framework and processes based on ITIL * Deploy and configure the new Service Manager HTML5 Self-Service Portal along with Service Catalog design and configuration * Get to know about Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes and configuration * Get to grips with performing advanced personalization in Service Manager * Discover how to set up and use automation with and within Service Manager 2016 * Work with Service Manager Data Warehouse * Find out what Security Roles are and how to implement them * Learn how to upgrade from SCSM 2012 R2 to SCSM 2016 In Detail System Center Service Manager (SCSM) is an integrated platform that offers a simplified data center management experience by implementing best practices such as Incident Management, Service Request, and Change Control to achieve efficient service delivery across your organization. This book provides you with real-world recipes that can be used immediately and will show you how to configure and administer SCSM 2016. You'll also find out how to solve particular problems and scenarios to take this tool further. You'll start with recipes on implementing ITSM frameworks and processes and configuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Then, you'll work through deploying and configuring the HTML5 Self-Service Portal, configuring Incident and Problem Management, and designing and configuring Change and Release Management. You'll also learn about security roles and overall Microsoft SCSM 2016 administration. Toward the end of the book, we'll look at advanced topics, such as presenting the wealth of information stored within the Service Manager Data Warehouse, standardizing SCSM deployments, and implementing automation. Style and approach This book will enlighten you on Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager through recipes that can be implemented directly in any enterprise. You can read the book from start to end if you're a beginner, or just open up any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference for advanced users. This book consists of a pool of step-by-step recipes on how to perform activities in Service Manager.

Deliver applications to virtual desktop environments in seconds and at scale with the click of a button About This Book * Learn how can you deliver a great user experience and drive down storage and management costs * Discover hidden gems to deliver applications to virtual desktop environments in seconds * This book will help you fully utilize the true potential of VMware App Volumes and design and build a complete production environment Who This Book Is For This book is for administrators and IT teams who would like to take full advantage of App Volumes to deal with application workloads. It will also be useful for virtualization professionals and teams who are working on VDI deployments and VMware end user computing solutions. What You Will Learn * Find out how the VMware App Volumes solution can enhance the management and delivery of applications in your desktop environment * Design a real-life App Volumes solution using best practices and following the recommended sizing guides * Install, configure, and deploy App Volumes so it is ready to start delivering applications * Create and prepare applications ready to be delivered to end users * Discover how App Volumes can enhance other desktop solutions by looking at how it integrates with VMware Horizon View, VMware ThinApp, RDSH, and Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp * Understand how to configure the advanced options within App Volumes In Detail App Volumes provides a virtualized, real-time application delivery engine for virtual desktop infrastructure and is designed to enable VDI deployments to ensure greater flexibility, agility, and cost reduction. This book starts with an in-depth overview of the architecture and components used to design an optimized solution. We then show you how to install and configure App Volumes for different use cases such as VMware View integration, using VMware ThinApp, Citrix XenApp, and more. Throughout the chapters, we provide hints, tips, and tricks as well as best practices. By the end of the book, you will have built a working App Volumes environment and acquired the skills to build and run a production environment. Style and approach This book comprises of the theoretical explanations that will help you perform a complete App Volumes deployment through step-by-step instructions

What Will You Find In This Book? Launched just a few months back, Windows 8 caused a commotion in the IT industry. It is said to be the most dynamic operating system launched by Microsoft. Windows 8 is different and far more exciting than its predecessors. It has innumerous features and utilities that are not only unique but also very user friendly. The fact that you are reading this book implies that you probably have already experienced Windows 8 and are looking for ways to explore more of it. Well you have definitely come to the right place. This book is not a typical user guide teaching you the basics of Windows 8. It contains 100 exciting unique tips that will make you love Windows 8 even more. Want to peek on the few tips? Well, here it is. Some of the most exciting tips of this book include the following. 1.Let your creativity flow while setting up your password 2.The secret to install the traditional evergreen all-time popular start button 3.Easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures 4.Some amazing tips on protection and personalization 5.Ways to save the data usage and bandwidth And much more... So don't just stop here. Continue reading and explore Windows 8 all over again.

Windows 8: 51 Essential Windows 8 Tips for Beginners Windows 8 is Microsoft's latest operating system to date The look and feel of Windows 8 is very different from previous operating systems from Microsoft. Windows 8 can be a bit confusing, especially if you are a Windows 8 beginner That's exactly why I released this book, Windows 8: 51 Essential Windows 8 Tips for Beginners Once you have a better understanding of Windows 8, you'll be able to get the most out of it My Windows 8 tips guide will provide you with the essentials to get you off the ground and enjoying everything Windows 8 has to offer you Here's a glimpse inside the Windows 8 Tips guide: Getting the Ball Rolling with Windows 8 Understanding the Charms Bar Opening the Control Panel Using Quick Access Displaying All Apps Closing an App Shutting It Down Shut Down in a Single Click Using Semantic Zoom Easy Access to Startup Items Sync a Microsoft Account Going Directly to the Desktop ..and so much more Don't let Windows 8 overwhelm you Grab a copy of my Windows 8: 51 Essential Windows 8 Tips for Beginners book today You'll be a Windows 8 guru when you're done

Deploy and manage today's essential services on an enterprise-class, open operating system About This Book * Configure and manage Linux servers in varying scenarios and for a range of business requirements * Explore the up-to-date features of CentOS using real-world scenarios * See practical and extensive recipes to deploy and manage CentOS Who This Book Is For This book is for Linux professionals with basic Unix/Linux functionality experience, perhaps even having set up a server before, who want to advance their knowledge in administering various services. What You Will Learn * See how to deploy CentOS easily and painlessly, even in multi-server environments * Configure various methods of remote access to the server so you don't always have to be in the data center * Make changes to the default configuration of many services to harden them and increase the security of the system * Learn to manage DNS, emails and web servers * Protect yourself from threats by monitoring and logging network intrusion and system intrusion attempts, rootkits, and viruses * Take advantage of today's powerful hardware by running multiple systems using virtualization In Detail CentOS is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) sources and is widely used as a Linux server. This book will help you to better configure and manage Linux servers in varying scenarios and business requirements. Starting with installing CentOS, this book will walk you through the networking aspects of CentOS. You will then learn how to manage users and their permissions, software installs, disks, filesystems, and so on. You'll then see how to secure connection to remotely access a desktop and work with databases. Toward the end, you will find out how to manage DNS, e-mails, web servers, and more. You will also learn to detect threats by monitoring network intrusion. Finally, the book will cover virtualization techniques that will help you make the most of CentOS. Style and approach This easy-to-read cookbook is filled with practical recipes. Hands-on, task-based exercises will present you with real-world solutions to deploy and manage CentOS in varying business scenarios.