Until now, we used solutions provided by Microsoft; maybe we should call them native solutions. That's not the only way to deploy your workload in Azure. Many vendors have created solutions to automate deployments in Azure. In this section, I want to cover a solution from a company called HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com). Later on in this chapter, I'll cover another product from this company: Packer. There are several reasons why I have chose these products:
- The products are very popular and well-known.
- There is an excellent relationship between Microsoft and HashiCorp; they work very hard together to implement more and more features.
- And, the most important reason: they have different products that you can use for different implementation scenarios. This will make you think again about what method you want to choose in different use cases.
