Declarative vs programmatic IaC

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Compares concrete tradeoffs: CloudFormation/Terraform give one-to-one resource mapping and safer multi-tenant changes, while CDK/Pulumi/TypeScript/Python enable loops, tests and org-wide constructs; demonstrates CDK constructs that emit ALB + ECS + VPC + TLS for quick prototyping and SST+Astro producing S3 + CloudFront + DNS for static sites. Covers state storage/locking differences, recommends lifecycle protections for stateful resources, reusable constructs, CI/CD, linting, drift detection and automated rollbacks.

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1. 0:00Infrastructure as code intro
2. 1:53Evolution of infrastructure as code
3. 4:18Declarative IaC key aspects
4. 6:45Programmatic IaC advantages
5. 8:31State management in IaC
6. 9:55AWS CDK demo
7. 10:59SST for static sites demo
8. 12:03IaC best practices
9. 15:14Q&A

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