Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)
by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Daniel Fernandez
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as code, also known as programmable infrastructure, is a way of building and managing an application’s entire environment through predefined code. It enables developers and administrators to recreate the same environment on multiple physical machines. An environment that can be reproduced is crucial to efficient development, testing, and deployment. As the size and complexity of a service increases, so does the difficulty in reproducing it consistently.
Administrators often rely on scripts to automate this process. Infrastructure as code performs a similar service while also adding automation, version control, true cross-platform support, and other features. Infrastructure as code typically consists of one ...
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