Understanding IaC
In the past, infrastructure was typically provisioned and configured manually with manually documented steps and/or a combination of scripts. This made the whole process error-prone and slow.
In the same way that you use a rigorous process for your application code, you should practice that for your infrastructure. The purpose of this approach is to make deployments repeatable and immutable, reduce the chances of error, and accelerate the deployment process by avoiding/eliminating any human interaction whenever possible.
IaC is the practice of codifying and storing in source control a descriptive model that defines and deploys all the infrastructure needed to run your applications and any supporting dependencies. It can encompass network configuration, load balancers, virtual machines, and any other application or data services your application architecture requires to operate and is applicable to on-premises data centers and cloud provider platforms.
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