Implement Infrastructure and Configuration as Code

In the previous chapter, the focus was on storing and building application code and releasing the created binaries. You learned how to create a pipeline, from source control to a target environment, for the automated, repeatable deployment of your applications.

In this chapter, you will learn how to apply the same principles to the infrastructure that your application runs on and the runtime configuration of your application. Doing so will help you to further increase the speed at which changes can be delivered to production, increasing the flow of value to your end users.

This chapter will start off by explaining the value of having everything, infrastructure and configuration included, as code. After that, it continues by explaining Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. The syntax will be explained, as well as how to deploy ARM templates. Then, it proceeds to explain the Azure Automation offering, available in the Azure cloud...