Zooming in on a reference architecture with Azure DevOps

So far, we have reviewed the fundamentals of Terraform, ARM templates, and Azure Bicep. It is now time to see how you can concretely set up a factory that's designed to provision resources and deploy applications in an industrial manner. Of course, we will not walk you through the complete setup, but we will describe the possible approaches.

Beware that it takes time to get a fully industrialized factory up and running, and it is a significant investment. So far, we have largely focused on the IaC bits, but of course the infrastructure components that we provision are used by applications that have their own life cycle. At the end of the day, you need to find a way to deploy both the application code and the infrastructure together, while still being able to test your own infrastructure work, independently of the applications that will consume your components. Therefore, we must distinguish the authoring and versioning...