Writing the code for an application is an entire project, and then automating your cloud resources with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is another entire project on top of that. You have to know what services your application needs, plus be an expert with your cloud provider of choice. Finally, you need to know the toolset you're using to create that cloud infrastructure.

As developers, this work usually doesn't fall on us, but we're the ones creating the application. We should be able to automate the cloud resources our application needs. And we should do it with code, the only way we know how.

Let's discuss what IaC is. Then we'll play with Pulumi, a tool for writing IaC using the programming languages we're used to. When we're done, you'll understand enough of the basics to add Pulumi IaC to your projects.