Delving into infrastructure as a code

Finally, in a book about Python, we get to a section about code. So far, I’ve given you a lot of information about what needs to be accomplished but to accomplish the things we want especially in this book, we must have a method, a tool, a weapon, i.e., code.

Now the word “code” scares a lot of people in the tech industry, even developers. It’s weird being afraid of the thing that is under everything you work with. But that’s the reality sometimes. If you, dear reader, are such a person, first off, it’s a brave thing to purchase this book, and secondly, all you are doing is denying yourself the opportunity to solve all the problems you have in the world. Seriously.

Now, the reason is that code is the weapon of choice in almost every situation. It is the solution to all your automation problems, monitoring problems, response problems, contract problems, and maybe other problems that you may have that...