Introduction
Scenario
You work for a franchise-based business. You started with the company five years ago as a systems administrator and recently moved into a new role as a DevOps engineer. One of your tasks on your previous team was to create Azure resources for new franchises. Because your previous team manually created the resources by using the Azure portal, the resources often lacked standardization and were time consuming to create.
Your first task in your new role as a DevOps engineer is to automate the provisioning of each new franchise's Azure resources. You want to learn the possibilities for automation tools and evaluate each of them.
As a proof of concept, you decide to summarize your findings and provide sample code for each offering so others on your new team can assist with the decision. The choice of automation tools to provision Azure resources is an important decision because the process will become part of your company's standard procedure for opening new franchise locations.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will:
- Understand basic concepts of infrastructure as code.
- Understand the key differences between the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Bicep, and Terraform.
- Be able to decide which command-line tools are best for your requirements.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of Azure
- Basic knowledge of any command-line tool