Part 2. Scaling with your team

After you learn the practices and patterns for writing infrastructure as code, you often want to share it with your team. This part discusses considerations and guidelines for sharing and collaborating on IaC. Establishing patterns across multiple teams minimizes conflicts and potential failures.

Chapter 5 describes how to structure, version, and release modules so every team member can update them safely. In chapter 6, you’ll learn about testing strategies for IaC. The tests will help you verify the stability of changes before you push them to production.

You’ll add testing to delivery pipelines in chapter 7, which describes development and deployment models. The chapter offers guidance to branch (or not to branch!) and safely deploy changes to production. Finally, chapter 8 discusses practices you can add to IaC testing and delivery pipelines to ensure secure and compliant configurations.