IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Category: infrastructure

Managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration.

IaC is "software for hardware." Instead of a human clicking buttons in a cloud console, you write a script. If you need 50 servers, you run the script. It is the only way to maintain reproducible, error-free, and scalable infrastructure environments.

Common Examples

• We use Terraform to enforce Infrastructure as Code, which ensures our production environment exactly matches our testing environment every time.
• Moving to an Infrastructure as Code model eliminated the "config drift" that was previously responsible for 30% of our production outages.