Summary
In this chapter, we briefly explained what the benefits are of a CI/CD pipeline and of DevOps tooling in general. We also highlighted how challenging it can be to have a fully functioning factory.
We made it clear that there is only one ruler in Azure's IaC world: the ARM endpoint. All the imperative and declarative tools and languages ultimately talk to the ARM endpoint. We shed some light on Terraform, native ARM templates, and Azure Bicep, ARM's next-generation language. Beyond imperative tools and declarative languages, we explored how to set the different elements to music with Azure DevOps. Concepts explained for Azure DevOps also apply to other platforms. By now, you should have understood that a fully functioning factory leveraging IaC is a vital element for building and provisioning cloud solutions. You should have gained sufficient knowledge to get started with your own factory, or to accompany DevOps teams on their CI/CD journey.
IaC is a key part...
