Benefits of Azure IaC
The main benefit of using IaC is automating the creation, updating, and configuration of different resources and environments. Automation takes the human element out of the picture while adding certain key benefits:
- The ability to schedule automated deployments, helping your operations staff work fewer hours.
- The ability to smoke test your automated deployments.
- The ability to create a repeatable process.
- Pure self-healing applications can be achieved.
- The ability to roll back changes.
- Resource Manager helps in tagging resources.
- ARM takes care of the dependencies of resources in the resource group.
Automation at any point is the real key to using a platform like Azure, whether that is automating your infrastructure deployments or testing to ensure the stability of your production deployments.
In order to reap these benefits, we need to learn how to use ARM templates effectively.