Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically generates parameterized cloud-infrastructure templates that represent cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies. The IaC cloud-infrastructure manager automatically transforms cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files into a set of parameterized cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files and a parameters file that together comprise a parameterized cloud-infrastructure template.

Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically compacts, and enhances the manageability of, IaC specification-and-configuration files. In a disclosed implementation, specification-and-configuration files used by a first cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to deploy cloud-based infrastructure in a cloud-computing facility are used by a different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to compact and enhance a parameterized cloud template generated by the different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to represent the already deployed cloud-based infrastructure. Compaction and manageability enhancement are implemented using control structures and constructs of a template language introduced into the parameterized cloud template.

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that automatically bind an attribute value, within a resource descriptor in a cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration file, that references a parent resource descriptor via a resource identifier to the resource identifier in the parent resource descriptor. One implementation of attribute-value binding is employed in an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically generates parameterized cloud templates that represent already deployed cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies.