DevOps Foundations: Infrastructure as Code

Learn the basics of infrastructure as code and all the implications of treating all our infrastructure code as application code, including testing and deployment.

Introduction

• Make your systems better with infrastructure as code
• What you need to know

1. The Wide World of Infrastructure

• It's all about the cloud
• Bare metal vs. cloud
• Not your mother's cloud
• Managed services vs. Bare cloud
• Containers galore
• VMs vs. Containers
• Where'd my server go?
• Serverless vs. Servers

2. Adventures in Automation

• Building the boxes and lines
• Everything vs. Terraform
• What's in the box?
• Declarative vs. imperative
• Everything vs. immutable

3. Bringing It All Together

• Provisioning lab overview
• AWS
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Docker
• Helm charts
• Serverless

4. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

• What is infrastructure as code?
• Continuous integration for infrastructure
• Testing infrastructure
• Works on my machine
• You write it, you run it
• Automate all the things
• CI for my IaC
• The GitOps model

Conclusion

• Where to go from here