What if your cloud infrastructure could be designed, tested, governed, and evolved with the same rigor as your application code?
Infrastructure as Code for Software Engineers shows how modern cloud systems are no longer configured through static files and manual processes, but engineered through real software practices using Pulumi and AWS CDK. This book is a practical, code-first guide for engineers who want to design cloud infrastructure that scales safely, remains governable, and supports long-term system growth without slowing teams down.
Rather than treating infrastructure as a separate operational concern, this book explains how to model infrastructure intent using general-purpose programming languages, apply software design principles to cloud architecture, and make informed decisions between AWS CDK and Pulumi based on real engineering trade-offs. You will learn how infrastructure moves from local development to production, how state and deployments are managed under the hood, and how governance, security, and observability become part of the system instead of afterthoughts.
The core benefits for the reader are clear and practical. You will learn how to replace repetitive configuration with reusable abstractions, how to build testable and maintainable infrastructure code, how to scale across environments, accounts, and regions, and how to enforce security and compliance without blocking developer velocity. The book also addresses real adoption challenges, including migrating from Terraform or CloudFormation, coexisting with legacy systems, and building internal platforms that enable self-service infrastructure.
What makes this book different is its engineer-first perspective. It is not a tool manual and not a collection of cloud recipes. It treats infrastructure as a long-lived software system, explains the underlying mechanics of both AWS CDK and Pulumi, and focuses on architectural reasoning, trade-offs, and operational reality. Every concept is grounded in how modern teams actually build, ship, and operate cloud systems at scale.
If you are a software engineer, cloud engineer, or technical lead who wants to move beyond YAML-driven workflows and take real ownership of cloud infrastructure, this book gives you the clarity, depth, and confidence to do it right.
Start reading now and learn how to engineer cloud infrastructure that is scalable, secure, governable, and built to last.
