Front matter
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the authors
about the cover illustration
Part 1. Introduction
1 Infrastructure as Code
1.1 Working with infrastructure
DevOps
Preventing configuration drift
1.2 The benefits of Infrastructure as Code
IaC allows for automation
IaC allows for a declarative approach
IaC provides a human-readable format
1.3 The Azure Resource Manager
Control plane and data plane
ARM templates
The Bicep language
Azure Service Management (ASM is not ARM)
1.4 Other tools