DevOps Master Class - Part 6 - Infrastructure as Code

In this class we dive into all the various elements of Infrastructure as Code and why it is so important for our complete DevOps lifecycle.

Whiteboard and code samples in the repo.

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00:00 Introduction
00:33 Why we need Infrastructure as Code
02:37 Imperative vs Declarative
12:28 Shift in process with the cloud
15:58 Guardrails and policy needs
18:02 Azure Policy example
24:58 Policy enforcement example
29:42 Naming and tag standards
30:44 Templates and parameter files
33:13 Terraform
37:40 Native cloud, e.g. Bicep
43:45 Other action handling, deployment scripts
44:25 IaC from the pipeline
53:55 VM and OS configuration
58:35 Custom images and Packer
1:01:40 Containers and Docker
1:05:10 Kubernetes
1:09:16 GitOps preview
1:11:45 Database configuration
1:12:26 Everything as Code
1:12:54 Consolidate repository
1:14:28 Policy as Code
1:15:11 Benefit review and summary

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[anthonybarone]

Thank you John you helped me get my Azure Administrator Associate and now you're helping me align my skills with the modern "cloud engineer"

[automercadosplaza]

John, thank you for all your videos.

With your help I've got so far : AZ-900, AZ-305, AI-900 and AI-102.

Not to mention that your videos always help me to be prepare for job interviews, in this case for Hashicorp.

[rstt]

Thanks John. Your video is really helpful. Easy to understand and comprehensive.

[iamdedlok]

This is a great introduction to the IaC landscape! Thanks John! Going to share with my friends and colleagues! Cheers

[Jakubosek]

I wish I had teachers like you at my university...

[vikingpea]

Been preaching this course to my team at work. Amazing content! Also, favorite shirt so far. I want it.

[Stateoftheheart]

Thanks John, you a legend! Brilliant explanation!

[ftlight]

super useful! great job John! thank you!

[roarlee]

Great video! Great visualization into the big picture.

[CreatinePuppet]

love the shirt. IaC is my favorite topic. thanks for the content.

[shehabmohamed]

you are great, man! passed az 104 and 500 with a lot of help from your videos.
Thanks for this free content and for your effort.

[Joe-tkcx]

Awesome and very informative. Would love to see a Azure ARM templates master class. Thanks again.

[tiffanyorlane]

Perfect presentation as usual. Thank you a lot :))

[pavangrandhi]

Very useful explanation, Thank you John!

[anshulsrivastava]

So much content in an hour's video, great stuff John!

[ts]

Completed the video - want my heart! ;) Oh almost forgot - thank you for the fish!

[swissbuechi]

You're awesome and you definitely deserve more recognition.
Thanks a lot!

[rakavana]

As always awesome content. thanks john !!!

[danielfawcett]

Just want to say a big thank you for this series, John. I’m really enjoying working through the classes and they have really motivated me to transition from a ‘click-click’ admin to an ‘as-code’ admin.

One question on this video: If GitOps is making changes to an environment straight off a commit, don’t we lose all that confidence we were getting from the pipeline approach? What am I missing?

[Myrn]

Thanks for the great content! I'd be interested in a video on how to manage governance (Azure AD) in code!