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Your DevOps infrastructure as code toolchain

Your DevOps infrastructure as code toolchain

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Your DevOps infrastructure as code toolchain

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- Now let's talk about choosing and using infrastructure as code tools. - Remember how we think about tools in DevOps. Pick the right tools for your team and situation. If nobody on your team knows a lick of programming, then probably choosing a tool that requires you to write Python is a stretch. - [Person In Brown Shirt] Yeah, and you want to keep it simple. You can always add more or more complex tools later on. - Finally, you're not just picking tools, you're creating a tool chain. One of the key benefits of infrastructure is code is that it encourages you to sit down and design out your operational environment before creating it like how any application should be built. Don't just grab tools and go. Plan out how you want this all to fit together. - Okay, here are the major decisions you'll want to make that will drive your tool choice. - Do you want to manage your own infrastructure or use a service where somebody else does it? If you're configuring your own bare metal, you could…

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