Benefits of Deployment Using IaC Model
Explore the advantages of using infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate infrastructure deployment. Understand how IaC minimizes human errors, speeds up deployments, saves costs by scaling efficiently, enhances security, and improves auditing and consistency. This lesson guides you through declarative and imperative IaC approaches and their benefits in modern cloud environments.
In the pre-cloud era, the operations team provisioned the required infrastructure based on demand. Typically, this setup process involves multiple approvals, and it usually takes a few weeks before the hardware is successfully provisioned.
Challenges with manual infrastructure provisioning
Manually provisioning the infrastructure caused a lot of challenges to organizations:
The servers needed to be patched and updated on time.
The deployments were slow because manual provisioning had to happen before the software could be installed.
Infrastructure costs were high as there was no option to scale down during the off-peak season.
Outages during the peak season as the infrastructure needs to scale up quickly to meet the sudden spike in traffic.
Auditing infrastructure changes were complex. ...