Infrastructure as Code technologies

- [Narrator] We've talked about … the importance of IAC for our devop setup. … Now we're going to investigate a few … technologies available to us in Azure … and how they help in our IAC journey. … Let's begin by looking at Azure … Resource Management or ARM Templates. … It's a process through which we can produce … repeatable infrastructure deployments. … ARM Templates have a declarative syntax … and a JSON based notation. … We're only concerned about providing the end state. … When we deploy templates, Azure Resource Manager … will review the difference between … our desired state and the current state. … And provision those necessary resources. … By taking the time to do this, … we're able to repeat our results … and guarantee the environment. … Now it wouldn't be a complete solution … if we didn't address governance, risk and compliance. … We're able to do this through Azure Blueprints, … which is made up of ARM Templates, … role-based access controls or RBACs and Azure policies. …