What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
In IT,Infrastructure as Code (IaC) refers to the practice of defining, managing and providing IT infrastructures such as servers, networks and storage via code instead of configuring them manually. This involves the use of machine-readable configuration files or scripts that describe the desired infrastructure.
What are the advantages of IaC?
- Fast deployment: Infrastructure can be deployed in minutes instead of hours or days because scripts or templates are used.
- Repeatability: Once created, IaC scripts can be used again and again, increasing efficiency.
- Fewer manual errors: Automation reduces the likelihood of human error during configuration.
- Standardized environments: All environments (e.g. development, test, production) can be created with the same IaC scripts, which ensures consistency.
- Versioning: IaC files can be stored like code in version control systems (e.g. Git), making changes traceable and reproducible.
- Simple scaling: Resources can be scaled quickly as required, whether horizontally (more servers) or vertically (more performance per server).
- Cloud-native integration: IaC is ideal for cloud platforms that provide dynamic and scalable resources.
- Shared development practices: Developers, testers and operations teams can use the same tools and processes, which promotes collaboration.
- Documentation through code: The IaC code also serves as documentation of the infrastructure.
- Resource control: Unnecessary or unused resources can be identified and removed more quickly.
- Optimized use of resources: Automatic scaling reduces operating costs.
- Fast recovery: The entire infrastructure can be recreated after a failure with just a few commands.
- Reproducibility: Backups and snapshots of configuration files enable exact recovery.
- Multi-cloud and hybrid environments: IaC makes it easier to manage complex setups for multiple cloud providers or on-premises data centers.
- Experimentation: Changes to the infrastructure can be safely tried out in a test environment and, if successful, simply transferred to production.
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