Infrastructure as Code — DevOps Engineering Roadmap
Defining and provisioning infrastructure through versioned, declarative code
Steps in Infrastructure as Code
- IaC Fundamentals — advanced · Declarative vs imperative infrastructure management and why it matters
- Terraform Basics — advanced · Providers, resources and writing your first Terraform configuration
- Terraform State Management — advanced · Remote state, locking and why state files are critical and dangerous to mishandle
- Terraform Modules — advanced · Packaging reusable, parameterized infrastructure components
- Configuration Management with Ansible — advanced · Agentless configuration management for servers using playbooks
- CloudFormation / Pulumi as Alternatives — advanced · Provider-native and general-purpose-language alternatives to Terraform
- Testing Infrastructure Code — advanced · Validating and testing IaC before it ever touches production
Part of
- DevOps Engineering roadmap — the full learning path