contents

 

  

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?