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Phase 10 · Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Topics

CloudFormation / ARM Templates / Deployment Manager

Part of the Cloud Computing Roadmap.

Summary

Each provider's native IaC tool — CloudFormation for AWS, ARM templates for Azure, Deployment Manager for GCP — deeply integrated with their respective platforms, at the cost of being locked to a single provider.

How to Learn This

  • 1Read a sample CloudFormation template (or your provider's equivalent) and identify its structure.
  • 2Compare its syntax and workflow to Terraform's for the same simple resource.
  • 3Learn why some teams prefer native tools for deep provider-specific feature support.

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IaC Concepts & BenefitsTerraform FundamentalsTerraform State ManagementTerraform ModulesConfiguration Management (Ansible Overview)CI/CD for Cloud DeploymentsGitOps BasicsIaC Testing & Validation
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