Introduction to Infrastructure as Code and PowerShell DSC

Abstract

In this era of cloud computing, communication and collaboration along with an agile way of delivering both infrastructure and software are critical. With the rise of the cloud infrastructure, starting with the Amazon Web Services announcement in 2006, there has been a constant effort to make the infrastructure dynamic and responsive to changes in business. The traditional methods of building and managing IT infrastructure do not help with web-scale infrastructures that are dynamic and work at a different scale than their traditional counterparts. Being an automation and efficiency fanatic, I always find an opportunity to evangelize DevOps practices. When we implement some of the DevOps practices in the context of infrastructure management, we call it Infrastructure as Code (IaC). In fact, IaC is an integral part of DevOps practices. Automation is certainly one of the most important enablers in DevOps practices and it makes Infrastructure as Code possible.