Basics of Infrastructure as Code

Even though this book is mostly related to administrative tasks in Azure, some other topics are worth knowing. One of those is Infrastructure as Code – often abbreviated as IaC. You might be wondering why this topic is so important. Is the Azure administrator somebody who deploys infrastructure? Well, while an administrator may be loosely related to infrastructure deployment and configuration, in Azure, you cannot just ignore various ways for provisioning. What’s more, in an advanced Azure environment containing multiple resources, policies, and rules, it’s much easier to leverage infrastructure automation and management using an IaC approach.

In this chapter, we’ll focus on the basics of IaC, which will help you learn topics that will be covered in the next few chapters:

• What is IaC?
• ARM templates
• Migrating to Azure Bicep
• Using Azure Container Registry (ACR) as a repository of modules

Let’...