Introduction to Infrastructure as Code - Part 1: Introducing IaC

This is Part 1 of a 3-article series that will introduce readers to infrastructure-as-code at a high-level and then provide a hands-on look at how to implement it on Azure using Terraform. This article discusses the basic concept of infrastructure as code (IaC) and what problems it solves. It shows how to differentiate between vendor-specific and multi-cloud IaC tools and the templating languages they support.