What is Infrastructure as Code?

The arrival of tools such as Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack, and Chef, have enabled developers and sysadmins to maintain modular, automatable infrastructure, and delineate them using a domain-specific language. This advancement in technology has been named as Infrastructure as Code (IAC). As the name suggests, infrastructure as code is the practice of considering infrastructure as if it were code. This innovative concept helps in managing the operations environment in the similar way you do applications or other code for release. It brings about repeatable, consistent practices for provisioning and changing systems and its configuration.

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January 9, 2020

6 Benefits for Enterprises with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

The next-generation infrastructure management technologies are transforming the way we manage IT infrastructure. The extensive implementation of virtualization and cloud infrastructure has eased and simplified the process of allocating servers to just configuring them.

Infrastructure as Code

There has been an arduous process earlier involved where it used to take a couple of weeks or even months to assign a server. However, with the continuous need to scale infrastructure, in order to bring agility into the process, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has surfaced for automating the provisioning of infrastructure services.

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