Evaluating Your Toolbox

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Compares ARM, Bicep, Terraform and Pulumi by showing a working demo that deploys an Azure resource group and storage account across ARM Bicep Terraform Pulumi, reports that ARM/Bicep give day‑zero support and Bicep compiles to ARM, shows Terraform’s plan/state/destroy workflow and extra admin work for remote state, and shows Pulumi using real languages with encrypted state and automatic name suffixes; all demos complete successfully and cleanup commands remove resources.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:14Agenda and why infrastructure as code
3. 3:00ARM templates overview
4. 4:48Bicep over ARM
5. 8:03Terraform multi-cloud
6. 11:35Pulumi IaC tool
7. 15:49Choosing IaC tools
8. 18:59Code comparison
9. 20:45ARM and Bicep deploy
10. 21:28Terraform deploy
11. 22:32Pulumi deploy
12. 25:18Q&A

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