Best practices and design patterns

Adhering to best practices and design patterns is essential for creating reliable, efficient, and maintainable cloud environments for successful IaC adoption and smooth integration with CSPM. Let us delve into some fundamental principles that can greatly enhance your IaC implementations.

DRY principle – Reducing redundancy in IaC code

The Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle is a cornerstone of software development, and it holds just as much relevance in the realm of IaC. At its core, DRY encourages you to eliminate redundancy and repetition in your code. This means avoiding duplication of configuration settings and code blocks. By adhering to DRY, you achieve efficiency as you save time and effort by defining configurations and resources only once, reducing the chance of inconsistencies. When changes are required, you make them in one place, ensuring that updates propagate across your infrastructure, which enhances maintainability...