Mitigating Infrastructure State Drift
This lesson provides you with the foundational knowledge required to design an infrastructure and configuration management strategy. It starts by looking at hosting infrastructure — IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, and some modern native app options — before moving on to look at Infrastructure-as-Code. You’ll learn what Infrastructure-as-Code means and the tools and technologies that are used to deploy and manage it.
Next, you'll learn about some of the more common Infrastructure-as-Code tools and technologies: Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, Chef, Puppet, and more. You'll also learn about technical debt and how to deal with it in templates. The lesson then covers transient infrastructure and its role in the delivery lifecycle, before finishing off by looking at the mitigation of infrastructure state drift.
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Learning Objectives
- Understand the main compute options available to host your infrastructure
- Have a solid grasp of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and its related tools and technologies
- Learn about technical debt and how to deal with it in templates
- Learn about transient infrastructure and how it can speed up projects and reduce costs
Intended Audience
This lesson is intended for those preparing for Microsoft's AZ-400 exam, or anybody who wants to learn about designing an infrastructure and configuration management strategy in Azure.
Prerequisites
To get the most from this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of Microsoft Azure and of DevOps concepts.
Tom is a 25+ year veteran of the IT industry, having worked in environments as large as 40k seats and as small as 50 seats. Throughout the course of a long an interesting career, he has built an in-depth skillset that spans numerous IT disciplines. Tom has designed and architected small, large, and global IT solutions.
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