Deep-Dive Terraform on Azure: Automated Delivery and Deployment of Azure Solutions

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R. ModiDeep-Dive Terraform on Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7328-9_1

1. Infrastructure as Code

Ritesh Modi¹  

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India

 

Before the advent of cloud computing, most infrastructure environments were built manually. Building all the environments including the production environment was done by infrastructure engineers using manual techniques and processes. There was some scripting and automation, but even those scripts were executed manually. The infrastructure would generally not undergo changes and would be exclusively created and maintained by infrastructure engineers. There was not much need to scale the infrastructure, neither ...