The Pandemic has moved a lot of applications into the cloud. Are you automating the deployment? Richard chats with Steve Buchanan about the ever-advancing tooling for Infrastructure-as-Code. ARM Templates are the standard approach to IaC for Azure, but they can get complex. Terraform is HashiCorp's tool for IaC that utilizes ARM Templates under the hood. But as Steve says, it takes time for new features of Azure to surface in Terraform. And Microsoft is developing Bicep as a new domain-specific language for IaC over ARM as well. What do you choose?

Links:

• Microsoft 365 Desired State Configuration with Nik Charlebois
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• Azure Resource Manager
• Azure Cloud Shell
• Azure Bicep
• Pulumi