The rise of immutable infrastructure and its implications
Immutable infrastructure is redefining the landscape of cloud-native environments by introducing an approach where once deployed, components remain unchanged; alterations require the deployment of new instances. This shift toward immutability offers several significant benefits:
- Consistency and reliability: This approach ensures that the infrastructure remains consistent across different environments, from development to production. It effectively addresses the common challenge of discrepancies between environments, often summed up as the “it works on my machine” problem. Immutable infrastructure achieves uniformity that is particularly beneficial in multi-cloud and complex distributed setups.
- Enhanced security: Immutable infrastructure naturally prevents configuration drift – the gradual deviation of system configurations over time. Locking down the state of components once deployed reduces...
