Infrastructure as Code

Clemens Schotte published on 2021-03-30 included in DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning infrastructure and configuration dependencies for application stacks using machine-readable definition files rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.

What is Infrastructure as Code?

Source Controlled
In code (Scripts & Templates)
Automated & Continuous Deployment
Testing
Feedback loop (Monitoring)

Categories of IaC tooling

You can use many declarative infrastructure deployment technologies with Azure. These fall into two main categories.