In the last couple of years, I'm surprised how far Azure as come especially in relation to automation/IaC. I remember sitting a basic "build stuff on Azure" co

In the last couple of years, I'm surprised how far Azure as come especially in relation to automation/IaC. I remember sitting a basic "build stuff on Azure" course maybe 4-5 years ago and 90% of the course involved sitting there clicking on stuff in the portal. Just recently I re-did the same course (someone else was paying, and I fancied a week away from the office, hence my second attendance...) and the focus of the course had switched from 'Next next finished' to using Powershell, DSC, scale-sets etc to automate as much as you can. I realise Windows/Azure isn't everyone's cup of tea on HN, but you've gotta give MS credit for going down 'the right' path here. Still a ways to go though, especially in comparison to AWS.