Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

Infrastructure as code

When writing an application, the binaries that you are building have to be running somewhere, on some application host. An example of such an application host can be a web server such as IIS or Apache. Next to an application host, we might need a database and some messaging solution. All of this together we call the infrastructure for our application. When practicing infrastructure as code, you are keeping a description of this infrastructure in your source code repository, alongside your application code.

When the time comes to release a new version of the application and you require one or more changes in the infrastructure, you are executing this description of your desired infrastructure using tools such as Chef, ...