Automating Cloud Resources

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#Overview of Automating Cloud Resources

Clicking through a console works, until it doesn't. This module covers how DevOps tools turn cloud deployment into something you can write, version, and repeat exactly — instead of remembering.

IaC CaC CI / CD Exam Objective 2.4

Module Introduction

Most cloud tasks can be done manually. That doesn't mean they should be.

Manual work is slow, repetitive, and one missed step from an outage — it does not scale, and it does not stay cost-effective as your environment grows.

Automating with tools and files is faster and far less error-prone. This module looks at automated and orchestrated deployments, and the DevOps tools that make them possible.

Module Objectives

What you'll cover

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Explore automation and orchestration to manage code-based deployments.
Use DevOps tools to provide Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment management.
Deploy and configure cloud resources using code.

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Why bother automating

Manual vs. automated deployment

Orchestration in practice

A typical CI/CD pipeline

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment chain automated steps together so a code change flows to production the same way, every time. Hover a stage to see what it's responsible for.

STAGE 1

Commit

Engineer pushes a change to version control.

STAGE 2

Build

Pipeline compiles code and packages artifacts.

STAGE 3

Test

Automated tests run against the build.

STAGE 4

Deploy

Cloud resources are provisioned and configured.

STAGE 5

Monitor

Health checks confirm the release is stable.

Feedback from Monitor flows back into the next Commit — the pipeline runs continuously, not once.

EXAM OBJ 2.4

Given a scenario, use code to deploy and configure cloud resources. Expect scenario questions that ask you to recognize when Infrastructure as Code or Configuration as Code is the right tool for a described deployment problem.

Software configuration management

IaC and CaC, side by side

More physical and virtual servers, routers, firewalls, and other devices are deployed and maintained by configuration management services. They define hardware requirements, install operating systems, deploy applications, and configure settings — for both on-premises and cloud systems.

infrastructure.tf

config.yaml

The payoff

What code-based deployment buys you

Versioning

Every change to your environment has a history you can read and roll back.

Repeatability

The same file produces the same environment, every single run.

Scalability

Provision ten resources or ten thousand with the same effort.

Testing

Validate a deployment before it ever touches production.

Documentation

The code itself is a record of what the environment is supposed to be.