Other tools

There are many other tools available for managing infrastructure and configuration through code. Next to the native Azure and Windows options discussed in the previous sections, there are many alternatives widely in use and some of them are listed in this section. It is important to know which tool can be used for which scenarios and how to integrate with them.

CloudFormation

CloudFormation is the IaC language for the AWS cloud. CloudFormation templates can be written in either JSON or YAML format. One example of creating an AWS S3 storage bucket that is publicly readable would look like this:

Resources:
  HelloBucket:
  Type: AWS::S3::Bucket 
  Properties:
  AccessControl: PublicRead

There is an extension available that allows the execution of CloudFormation templates on AWS from Azure DevOps. This extension provides tasks for creating, updating, or deleting AWS stacks. A stack has a function that is comparable to a resource...