Introducing Visual Studio Code

The final tool I am going to introduce isn’t an IaC tool but an IDE, which is used to write the code itself.

Visual Studio Code is a powerful code editor perfect for most development languages, including your IaC projects. It is feature-rich, fast, and highly customizable, making it the ideal choice no matter which of the tools you decide to go with.

The best part is that Visual Studio Code is completely free and open source. Whether you’re a professional web developer, system administrator, or DevOps practitioner, Visual Studio Code has everything you need to create well-structured code.

Is it something I use on a daily basis – as you can see from the following screenshot, via the use of extensions, you get features such as syntax highlighting:

Figure 2.2 – Our Terraform example opened in Visual Studio Code

But beyond syntax highlighting, with extensions you can also get powerful features...