Lesson 14: Using Infrastructure as Code

A fast-food company looks to develop a mobile application that allows customers to purchase food without coming into the store. One of the engineers suggested that the company implement backups to minimize potential downtime if an issue occurs. What concept would be implemented with the backups to ensure they consistently run?

Automation

What might be necessary for a Linux server administrator to understand to assist in a DevOps team?

Automation

What is a key difference between automation and orchestration?

Automation is related to deployment tasks.

A web development team needs to implement a process that improves the turnaround time between updates. What concept refers to this process?

CI/CD

A DevOps team needs an orchestration utility that runs on Ruby and includes both declarative and imperative methods. What utility best fits the team's needs?

Chef

A system administrator sets up a new server and wants to modify settings for the server after completing the initial setup. What should the system administrator learn about to accomplish this task?

Configuration management

A DevOps team needs a version control utility. What utility best fits the team's needs?

Git

A small developer wants to publish their script while also having a portal that shows version control information. What common version control utility would this portal rely on?

Git

What concept refers to a person managing Linux servers with version control and centralized management?

IaC

A DevOps team works to simplify the ability for users to configure their application when users set it up on their own servers. What would best fit this activity?

JSON

One of the key benefits of a DevOps organization using configuration management processes is to do what?

Maintain consistency.

An administrator needs to replace much of the manual configuration process with automation to improve the DevOps team's ability to deploy new code. What concept should the administrator investigate?

Orchestration

A developer needs to create a new branch of their code in their version control. What command would accomplish this?

branch

A developer needs to switch the branch the developer is working on in their version control. What command would accomplish this?

checkout

A developer needs to update a program in their version control to add the developer's changes to it. What command would accomplish this?

commit