Create Infrastructure as Code Fundamentals blog post

[bobbyonmagic]

Description

The Terraform DigitalOcean Droplet exercise references a post at /posts/infrastructure-as-code-fundamentals in its resources section, but this post does not exist.

Current State

• Exercise: content/exercises/terraform-digitalocean-droplet.json
• Referenced link: /posts/infrastructure-as-code-fundamentals
• Status: 404 - Post does not exist

Requirements

Create a comprehensive blog post covering:

• What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
• Benefits of IaC (version control, reproducibility, automation)
• Common IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible)
• Basic concepts (declarative vs imperative, state management)
• Best practices for IaC
• Getting started guide

Priority

HIGH - This is referenced in a featured beginner exercise and is important foundational content.

Found by

Broken link checker (Issue #845, PR #963)

[bobbyonmagic]

Note from broken link fix (Issue #845):

This link has been temporarily removed from the Terraform DigitalOcean exercise (content/exercises/terraform-digitalocean-droplet.json:253) to fix the 404 error. Once this post is written, we should add it back to the resources section.

[bobbyonmagic]

Note: The reference to this blog post was removed from content/exercises/terraform-digitalocean-droplet.json in PR #968 as part of broken link cleanup. Once this post is published, we should add a proper reference back in the exercise's learningObjectives or description mentioning the IaC fundamentals guide.