May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
602 pages
14h 1m
English
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Infrastructure as Code
In this chapter, we will learn about the different cloud infrastructure provisioning techniques. We will learn about some good ways to create infrastructure in the AWS cloud and how we can automate the creation of infrastructure using infrastructure provision tools.
This chapter explains what infrastructure as code is and what tools and technologies you can use to provision different resources you require to deploy a sample application in the AWS cloud. For this book, we will use a mix of the AWS console and Terraform to create the required infrastructure. In this chapter, we will explain what tools are available to automate infrastructure provisioning and how to use them.
We will learn about CloudFormation and Terraform ...