Understanding Infrastructure as Code (cloudonaut.io)

[Terraform](https://terraform.io/) is a great tool for representing infrastructure as code, plus, it's provider agnostic.

Luckily AWS already has CloudFormation is their closing? There's no content here.

The translation into a linear flow of commands is an oversimplification - it assumes that the graph is a specific type of tree, when in fact any directed acyclic graph is valid.

Also, I personally find it way more interesting what happens when you update existing infrastructure, not just deploy new infrastructure, with an arbitrary dependency graph. But probably that's just me.

Shameless plug: you don't have to use a proprietary cloud! OpenStack provides the same thing via the Heat project.

just use ansible