Why Infrastructure as Code?
Explore the concept of Infrastructure as Code and understand how it automates provisioning and management of cloud resources using tools like Terraform. Learn the benefits such as scalability, reliability, and auditability, as well as the challenges like consistency and learning curves. This lesson guides you through best practices to effectively use IaC in real-world scenarios.
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Introduction
IaC allows us to use different tools, like Ansible and Terraform, to provision resources using a combination of template files, scripts, and even policy documents. The range of components that can be created or managed includes network, application, storage, security, and other cloud infrastructure.
Managing infrastructure setups manually comes with errors or inconsistencies and can be time-consuming. Many organizations with manually set up infrastructures tend to look for ways to automate these and make the management seamless.
Although IaC has its own challenges, it promises a lot of benefits mainly because it allows the versioning of infrastructure changes and makes it easy to make small and trackable changes in real time.
Advantages of IaC
Big organizations that run business-critical IT systems leverage the power of IaC to drive their businesses, especially in the area of minimizing downtime. Some of the advantages of IaC are given below.
- Confidence: IaC gives the ability to