"Provisioning and Lifecycle Management with Airship"
Provisioning and Lifecycle Management with Airship is an in-depth guide to mastering the complete lifecycle of cloud-native infrastructures using the Airship framework. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to Airship's architecture, including its modular projects—Deckhand, Shipyard, Promenade, and Armada—and explores the principles of declarative infrastructure management. Readers are guided through integrating Airship into complex environments alongside Kubernetes and OpenStack, understanding document-driven workflows, and participating in the vibrant Airship community.
Moving from foundational concepts to real-world application, the book offers practical strategies for designing multi-site, dynamic, and edge infrastructure blueprints. Coverage includes robust approaches to secrets management, configuration validation, and change control, as well as automated provisioning of bare metal servers and lifecycle operations such as monitoring health, firmware management, and secure decommissioning. Advanced topics explore orchestrated upgrades, federation patterns, remote management, and resilient disaster recovery across distributed cloud environments.
Security, compliance, and operational excellence are woven throughout, featuring chapters on access control, supply chain trust, auditability, and incident response. Complete with insights into observability, CI/CD integration, and DevOps automation, the book empowers readers to leverage Airship for consistent, scalable, and auditable deployments. The final chapters open doors to extensibility, plugin development, and next-generation use cases, making this essential reading for architects, operators, and developers driving innovation at the intersection of cloud, edge, and automation.
