Note: This article originally appeared on the Centiq Blog and on my LinkedIn the following day.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a term used to describe a collection of practices for managing IT resources via programmable interfaces, allowing infrastructure to be defined in code, rather than created through a series of human activity. Typically, infrastructure resources might include various types of network, storage, and compute components, alongside resources relating to identity and permissions.

I represented Microsoft Azure at this SAP customer and partner event, describing some of the many capabilities my Engineering Team at Centiq built in collaboration with Thames Water’s Cloud Team.