Building Serverless Microservices in Python

Infrastructure as code

Infrastructure as code is basically the process of managing and provisioning your resources through definition files or code. It provides a centralized way to manage configuration in terms of implementation and version control. Suddenly, the resource management and provisioning becomes much more like the agile process in the systems-development life cycle in software. All changes are validated, tested, and provisioned as part of a release process and using standard deployment pipelines. This also provides the ability to copy configuration used to deploy infrastructure in one region to another.

For example, let's say you deployed infrastructure in the North Virginia region using code and configuration, you could easily ...