A Complete Guide to Energy Savings In a Domestic Household - 2020 Edition

A Complete Guide to Energy Savings In a Domestic Household - 2020 Edition
Author: C. B. Hotnoga
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2020-01-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0244850011

Save BIG on your energy and water bills. Any household can lead exactly the same lifestyles whilst cutting down at least 25%% on energy and water expenses, and helping the Environment at the same time. A complete Guide to maximum energy (electricity and gas) + water savings in a domestic household Part of Project "CHALLENGE" For the Future A better approach to energy savings Greener behaviours in modern day lifestyles Planning, ahead of changing Cutting down on natural resources used Reducing pollution Fighting climate change Making BIG SAVINGS on that energy bill Project "CHALLENGE" includes: Domestic households Small sized commercial premises Medium commercial businesses Medium and large commercial businesses with high energy demands Industrial premises

Deploying ACI

Deploying ACI
Author: Frank Dagenhardt
Publisher: Cisco Press
Total Pages: 934
Release: 2018-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0134661079

Use ACI fabrics to drive unprecedented value from your data center environment With the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined networking platform, you can achieve dramatic improvements in data center performance, redundancy, security, visibility, efficiency, and agility. In Deploying ACI, three leading Cisco experts introduce this breakthrough platform, and walk network professionals through all facets of design, deployment, and operation. The authors demonstrate how ACI changes data center networking, security, and management; and offer multiple field-proven configurations. Deploying ACI is organized to follow the key decision points associated with implementing data center network fabrics. After a practical introduction to ACI concepts and design, the authors show how to bring your fabric online, integrate virtualization and external connections, and efficiently manage your ACI network. You’ll master new techniques for improving visibility, control, and availability; managing multitenancy; and seamlessly inserting service devices into application data flows. The authors conclude with expert advice for troubleshooting and automation, helping you deliver data center services with unprecedented efficiency. Understand the problems ACI solves,and how it solves them Design your ACI fabric, build it, and interface with devices to bring it to life Integrate virtualization technologieswith your ACI fabric Perform networking within an ACI fabric (and understand how ACI changes data center networking) Connect external networks and devices at Layer 2/Layer 3 levels Coherently manage unified ACI networks with tenants and application policies Migrate to granular policies based on applications and their functions Establish multitenancy, and evolve networking, security, and services to support it Integrate L4–7 services: device types, design scenarios, and implementation Use multisite designs to meet rigorous requirements for redundancy and business continuity Troubleshoot and monitor ACI fabrics Improve operational efficiency through automation and programmability

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Author: Austin Young
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2019-08-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781688449510

This book attempts to explore all you need to know regarding Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). It will assist you in making informed decisions, if you have plans to implement IaC. As part of the DevOps practices, IaC offers the ability to manage, configure, and create complex infrastructures by means of executable code. When adopting IaC, the infrastructure is managed by defining the preferred state of the infrastructure in source files, and using a tool to help facilitate that. The source files consist of templates, policy definitions, configuration, code, and other related assets. A better infrastructure delivery can help improve the important aspects of software delivery performance that drive business outcomes. These include time to restore service, change failure rate, lead time for changes, and deployment frequency. What You'll Learn: Understand how IaC works. Explore tools and services for updating running servers, building server templates, and provisioning servers. Learn about immutable infrastructure and the tools needed to implement it. Comprehend how to make an object reproducible. Discover the best practices for managing a dynamic infrastructure. And lots more...

CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure 300-620 DCACI Official Cert Guide

CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure 300-620 DCACI Official Cert Guide
Author: Ammar Ahmadi
Publisher: Cisco Press
Total Pages: 1287
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0136602703

Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam. * Master CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 exam topics * Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes * Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks This is the eBook edition of the CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide. This eBook does not include access to the companion website with practice exam that comes with the print edition. CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test-preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Data Center DCACI exam. Leading Cisco data center technology expert Ammar Ahmadi shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics. Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time. This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 exam. It tests your knowledge of Cisco switches in ACI mode, including • ACI fabric infrastructure • ACI packet forwarding • External network connectivity • Integrations • ACI management • ACI Anywhere CCNP Data Center Application Centric Infrastructure DCACI 300-620 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/index.html

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Author: Kief Morris
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1098114620

Six years ago, Infrastructure as Code was a new concept. Today, as even banks and other conservative organizations plan moves to the cloud, development teams for companies worldwide are attempting to build large infrastructure codebases. With this practical book, Kief Morris of ThoughtWorks shows you how to effectively use principles, practices, and patterns pioneered by DevOps teams to manage cloud-age infrastructure. Ideal for system administrators, infrastructure engineers, software developers, team leads, and architects, this updated edition demonstrates how you can exploit cloud and automation technology to make changes easily, safely, quickly, and responsibly. You'll learn how to define everything as code and apply software design and engineering practices to build your system from small, loosely coupled pieces. This book covers: Foundations: Use Infrastructure as Code to drive continuous change and raise the bar of operational quality, using tools and technologies to build cloud-based platforms Working with infrastructure stacks: Learn how to define, provision, test, and continuously deliver changes to infrastructure resources Working with servers and other platforms: Use patterns to design provisioning and configuration of servers and clusters Working with large systems and teams: Learn workflows, governance, and architectural patterns to create and manage infrastructure elements

Future Intent-Based Networking

Future Intent-Based Networking
Author: Mikhailo Klymash
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030924351

So-called Intent-Based Networking (IBN) is founded on well-known SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and represents one of the most important emerging network infrastructure opportunities. The IBN is the beginning of a new era in the history of networking, where the network itself translates business intentions into appropriate network configurations for all devices. This minimizes manual effort, provides an additional layer of network monitoring, and provides the ability to perform network analytics and take full advantage of machine learning. The centralized, software-defined solution provides process automation and proactive problem solving as well as centralized management of the network infrastructure. With software-based network management, many operations can be performed automatically using intelligent control algorithms (artificial intelligence and machine learning). As a result, network operation costs, application response times and energy consumption are reduced, network reliability and performance are improved, network security and flexibility are enhanced. This will be a benefit for existing networks as well as evolved LTE-based mobile networks, emerging Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud systems, and soon for the future 5G/6G networks. The future networks will reach a whole new level of self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-recovery and self-protection. This volume consists of 28 chapters, based on recent research on IBN.The volume is a collection of the most important research for the future intent-based networking deployment provided by different groups of researchers from Ukraine, Germany, Slovak Republic, Switzerland, South Korea, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Brazil, Belarus and Israel. The authors of the chapters from this collection present in depth extended research results in their scientific fields.The presented contents are highly interesting while still being rather practically oriented and straightforward to understand. Herewith we would like to wish all our readers a lot of inspiration by studying of the volume!

Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment

Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment
Author: Ernie Hayden, MIPM, CISSP, CEH, GICSP(Gold), PSP
Publisher: Rothstein Publishing
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1944480722

ASIS Book of The Year Winner as selected by ASIS International, the world's largest community of security practitioners Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment wins 2021 ASIS Security Book of the Year Award - SecurityInfoWatch ... and Threat Reduction Handbook by Ernie Hayden, PSP (Rothstein Publishing) was selected as its 2021 ASIS Security Industry Book of the Year. As a manager or engineer have you ever been assigned a task to perform a risk assessment of one of your facilities or plant systems? What if you are an insurance inspector or corporate auditor? Do you know how to prepare yourself for the inspection, decided what to look for, and how to write your report? This is a handbook for junior and senior personnel alike on what constitutes critical infrastructure and risk and offers guides to the risk assessor on preparation, performance, and documentation of a risk assessment of a complex facility. This is a definite “must read” for consultants, plant managers, corporate risk managers, junior and senior engineers, and university students before they jump into their first technical assignment.

The Definitive Guide to AWS Infrastructure Automation

The Definitive Guide to AWS Infrastructure Automation
Author: Bradley Campbell
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1484253981

Discover the pillars of AWS infrastructure automation, starting with API-driven infrastructure concepts and its immediate benefits such as increased agility, automation of the infrastructure life cycle, and flexibility in experimenting with new architectures. With this base established, the book discusses infrastructure-as-code concepts in a general form, establishing principled outcomes such as security and reproducibility. Inescapably, we delve into how these concepts enable and underpin the DevOps movement. The Definitive Guide to AWS Infrastructure Automation begins by discussing services and tools that enable infrastructure-as-code solutions; first stop: AWS's CloudFormation service. You’ll then cover the ever-expanding ecosystem of tooling emerging in this space, including CloudFormation wrappers such as Troposphere and orchestrators such as Sceptre, to completely independent third-party tools such as Terraform and Pulumi. As a bonus, you’ll also work with AWS' newly-released CDK (Cloud Development Kit). You’ll then look at how to implement modular, robust, and extensible solutions across a few examples -- in the process building out each solution with several different tools to compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each. By the end of the journey, you will have gained a wide knowledge of both the AWS-provided and third-party ecosystem of infrastructure-as-code/provisioning tools, and the strengths and weaknesses of each. You’ll possess a mental framework for how to craft an infrastructure-as-code solution to solve future problems based on examples discussed throughout the book. You’ll also have a demonstrable understanding of the hands-on operation of each tool, situational appropriateness of each tool, and how to leverage the tool day to day. What You Will Learn Discover the technological and organizational benefits to infrastructure-as-code solutions Examine the overall landscape of infrastructure-as-code tooling and solutions available to consumers of AWS services See the strengths and weaknesses of these tools relative to one another as examined through hands-on implementation of several solutions Gain hands-on experience, best practices, and tips and tricks learned through several years’ real-world experience delivering solutions using these very tools in a wide variety of scenarios Engineer solid solutions that leave room for new requirements and changes without requiring needless refactoring Who This Book Is For DevOps engineers, cloud engineers and architects focused on the AWS ecosystem, software engineers/developers working within the AWS ecosystem, and engineering leaders looking for best practices.

Practical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Practical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Author: Michał Tomasz Jakóbczyk
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1484255062

Use this fast-paced and comprehensive guide to build cloud-based solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will understand cloud infrastructure, and learn how to launch new applications and move existing applications to Oracle Cloud. Emerging trends in software architecture are covered such as autonomous platforms, infrastructure as code, containerized applications, cloud-based container orchestration with managed Kubernetes, and running serverless workloads using open-source tools. Practical examples are provided. This book teaches you how to self-provision the cloud resources you require to run and scale your custom cloud-based applications using a convenient web console and programmable APIs, and you will learn how to manage your infrastructure as code with Terraform. You will be able to plan, design, implement, deploy, run, and monitor your production-grade and fault-tolerant cloud software solutions in Oracle's data centers across the world, paying only for the resources you actually use. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is part of Oracle's new generation cloud that delivers a complete and well-integrated set of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities (compute, storage, networking), edge services (DNS, web application firewall), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities (such as Oracle Autonomous Database which supports both transactional and analytical workloads, the certified and fully managed Oracle Kubernetes Engine, and a serverless platform based on an open-source Fn Project). What You Will LearnBuild software solutions on Oracle CloudAutomate cloud infrastructure with CLI and TerraformFollow best practices for architecting on Oracle CloudEmploy Oracle Autonomous Database to obtain valuable data insightsRun containerized applications on Oracle’s Container Engine for KubernetesUnderstand the emerging Cloud Native ecosystem Who This Book Is For Cloud architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and technology students and others who want to learn how to build cloud-based systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) leveraging a broad range of OCI Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) capabilities, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle's Container Engine for Kubernetes. Readers should have a working knowledge of Linux, exposure to programming, and a basic understanding of networking concepts. All exercises in the book can be done at no cost with a 30-day Oracle Cloud trial.

Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
Author: Ewere Diagboya
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2021-04-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 180056435X

Explore real-world examples of issues with systems and find ways to resolve them using Amazon CloudWatch as a monitoring service Key FeaturesBecome well-versed with monitoring fundamentals such as understanding the building blocks and architecture of networkingLearn how to ensure your applications never face downtimeGet hands-on with observing serverless applications and servicesBook Description CloudWatch is Amazon's monitoring and observability service, designed to help those in the IT industry who are interested in optimizing resource utilization, visualizing operational health, and eventually increasing infrastructure performance. This book helps IT administrators, DevOps engineers, network engineers, and solutions architects to make optimum use of this cloud service for effective infrastructure productivity. You'll start with a brief introduction to monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch and its core functionalities. Next, you'll get to grips with CloudWatch features and their usability. Once the book has helped you develop your foundational knowledge of CloudWatch, you'll be able to build your practical skills in monitoring and alerting various Amazon Web Services, such as EC2, EBS, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and ELB, with the help of real-world use cases. As you progress, you'll also learn how to use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics, define automated actions, and rapidly troubleshoot issues. Finally, the book will take you through monitoring AWS billing and costs. By the end of this book, you'll be capable of making decisions that enhance your infrastructure performance and maintain it at its peak. What you will learnUnderstand the meaning and importance of monitoringExplore the components of a basic monitoring systemUnderstand the functions of CloudWatch Logs, metrics, and dashboardsDiscover how to collect different types of metrics from EC2Configure Amazon EventBridge to integrate with different AWS servicesGet up to speed with the fundamentals of observability and the AWS services used for observabilityFind out about the role Infrastructure As Code (IaC) plays in monitoringGain insights into how billing works using different CloudWatch featuresWho this book is for This book is for developers, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, or any IT individual with hands-on intermediate-level experience in networking, cloud computing, and infrastructure management. A beginner-level understanding of AWS and application monitoring will also be helpful to grasp the concepts covered in the book more effectively.