How Python Integrates with IaC Concepts

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

– Dag Hammarskjöld

So, as we approach this penultimate chapter, we get to the topic of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It is quite the topic, indeed, one that has taken the IT world by storm. It is a response to the fact that there are now more resources available for applications and workloads than there ever were before and the only thing left to do is arrange them in the most optimal way. Sure, you might find a way to do this once manually and it might work. But having to do it over and over again with a guarantee that you won’t make mistakes? That’s foolish talk and a waste of manpower.

So, based on these observations, the concept of IaC emerged. It posited that if resource creation, provisioning, and updating were standardized in the form of code with constants and variables arranged in an organized way...