Infrastructure as Code is one of the important facets of configuration-management systems. Generally, an environment is provisioned using manual efforts, such as using a self-service portal or wizard that provides step-by-step directions to configure a resource. It might go a step further and the environment can be provisioned using scripts, such as PowerShell and Bash. These scripts can then execute either manually or automatically using an orchestrator tool.
There are some serious limitations in using any of the previously mentioned approaches:
- Lack of repeatability, consistency, and predictability during provisioning and updating environments. The configuration values for scripts are either entered manually by copying from documents and Excel sheets.
- Lack of diagnostic information and it's difficult to figure out the exact error location.
- Human...
