Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, containers... it's a very different kind of virtual reality we're in, and ready or not you're likely to find yourself interacting with virtual infrastructure sooner rather than later.

We'll talk about programmable, immutable infrastructure. We'll talk about declarative programming. Whether you think of yourself as a software developer or as a systems administrator, the lines are increasingly cloudy.

This talk will be a survey of the high-level concepts and the available tools to make this easier. When concrete examples are provided, AWS, Terraform, and Salt will be the likely culprits.