The document discusses automating build and deployment pipelines using infrastructure as code. It recommends: 1. Treating development environments like production by making them automated, disposable, and recreated from code. 2. Not sharing secrets between environments and making credentials, keys, and other sensitive data unique to each automated environment. 3. Automating the creation of all infrastructure components including VMs, containers, Kubernetes clusters from configuration files to ensure they can be recreated identically on any cloud provider.