1. Infrastructure as code

2. “Enable the reconstruction of the business from nothing but a source code repository, an application data backup, and bare metal resources” Jesse Robins

3. Why Infrastructure as codeBusiness Development teams Operations/ IT

4. Consistently repeat the configurations. Tested and verified. Shared and promoted across the entire environment. Provide building blocks for the continuous delivery pipeline. Why Infrastructure as code

5. How infrastructure evolves Define topology Create tech. design Setup infrastructure Availability set Virtual Network Index Site 1 Site 2 Site N Search Word Automation Excel services BCS MMS Reporting Manual Deployments Release notes Deployment cycles Errors  Solution? D T AP App servers Reporting DB server Replication Domain controller Web server Index Site 1 Site 2 Site N

6. Items of complexity What’s so complex?.NET framework Web Server Application pools Service accounts Permissions Server log files Web content Registry settings Users Index locations Updates Antivirus PowerShell modules Utilities Groups Configuration changes Firewall rules Ports Trusted computers Network configurations Files

7. How infrastructure evolves Define topology Create tech. design Setup infrastructure Availability set Virtual Network Index Site 1 Site 2 Site N Search Word Automation Excel services BCS MMS Reporting Manual Deployments Release notes Deployment cycles Errors  Solution? D T AP App servers Reporting DB server Replication Domain controller Web server Index Site 1 Site 2 Site N

8. Current state Infrastructure automation Stable DTAP Changes to infrastructure in small iterations Test against lower environments Automated releases Release often Continuous monitoring Integrated into pipeline

9. Allow you to define the desired state of the system The how part is taken care by the software that converts the system to the desired state. Desired state?

10. Infrastructure management Configuration Node Role Resource

11. Components of Infrastructure as code Node Workstation Version control Configuration management server Users Continuous integration

12. Components of Infrastructure as code Workstation Server Node Create and authorize configurations Manage nodes, roles, data etc. Manage cloud resources Push configurations Monitor Manage History and reporting Contact server and pulls configurations Compile and run

13. Ansible Demo – Open source track

14. PowerShell DSC Visual Studio Team Services Azure Git Chocolatey Pester/ FluentShell unit Chef Reports Release pipeline Demo – Microsoft track

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