Infrastructure as Code for Beginners

4

Deploying to Microsoft Azure

In this fourth chapter, we are going to look at getting our project deployed with the first of the two major public cloud providers we are going to cover in this book, Microsoft Azure.

We are going to cover the following topics:

• Introducing Microsoft Azure
• Preparing our cloud environment for deployment
• Producing the low-level design
• Terraform – writing the code and deploying our infrastructure
• Ansible – reviewing the code and deploying our infrastructure

We will delve into the world of Microsoft Azure, beginning with an introduction to the platform, its key features, and the benefits it offers for cloud-based application deployment. We will also explore the different services available within Azure and how they ...