Infrastructure as Code

Gain a basic understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and how it can enable you to scale, version, and audit infrastructure resources.

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DevOps adoption usually includes an evolution of processes and tool chains that enable these teams to function optimally. Modern day computing and infrastructure management is definitely shifting away from “ClickOps” management and adopting the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) way of doing business. IaC enables teams to easily define, deploy and maintain compute infrastructures in the form of code. It also provides the ability to effortlessly scale, version and audit infrastructure resources.

In this session, you'll be introduced to the core principles of IaC and have the opportunity to reinforce what you've learned featuring industry known tools such as Terraform and Pulumi. CircleCI Developer Advocate Angel Rivera leads this course. He will demonstrate along the way how to specify, deploy and destroy a Kubernetes cluster via code.

Infrastructure as Code – Prerequisites

Course SCORM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DgJ_9Axh0SAGsBEKRlwo7R5kEOpZy2TJ/view?usp=sharing

In this section, we feature a series of eight lessons covering Infrastructure as Code (IaC). IaC enables organizations to create, manage, and destroy compute resources using modern DevOps tools by statically defining and declaring these resources in code. We review IaC from a high level, then get into specifics on how to use HashiCorp’s Terraform to provision, deploy, and destroy infrastructure resources. This training was developed in conjunction with a CircleCI blog post tutorial series that you might find useful as a preview.

For the first lesson, we cover the installation of tools and cloud services necessary to follow this training, namely: