IaC Zoology

Infrastructure-as-Code has had its fair share of tech standards. Let's look at them.

• Terraform - multi-cloud, open-source Infrastructure-as-Code tool that works across AWS, Azure, GCP and more

For Microsoft landscape only, we have:

• ARM templates - Azure's native JSON-based IaC format, verbose but powerful. Many companies still have ARM templates in their arsenal, even though it's time has come
• Bicep - domain-specific language (DSL) for Azure (where said domain is IaC, or more broadly "declarative deployment of Azure resources") that simplifies ARM templates with cleaner syntax. A good one if you are not hybrid-clouding