Front matter
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the author
about the cover illustration
Part 1. First steps
1 Introducing infrastructure as code
1.1 What is infrastructure?
1.2 What is infrastructure as code?
Manual configuration of infrastructure
Infrastructure as code
What is not infrastructure as code?
1.3 Principles of infrastructure as code
Reproducibility
Idempotency
Composability
Evolvability
Applying the principles
1.4 Why use infrastructure as code?