Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Tony Osunde
Server Administrator | Enterprise Support | Technical Support Engineer | Office 365 Support
By 2023, 60% of organizations will utilize infrastructure automation tools, referred to as Infrastructure as Code #IAC as a part of their #DevOps toolchains.
The first question we need to answer is,?
"WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURE"?
infrastructure is one of the most important aspects of the software development process because it is directly responsible for the application's stability.?Servers, load balancers, firewalls, databases, and complex container clusters are all part of this infrastructure.
As the software product becomes more complex, these infrastructure considerations become more important.?
To meet the demands of modern rapid software development cycles, the traditional approach of manually managing infrastructure quickly becomes an unscalable solution.
Because manual infrastructure management is inherently inefficient, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become today's de facto solution. The overall goal of IaC is to meet the changing needs of infrastructure in a scalable and measurable way.?
This brings us to the question, What is infrastructure as Code #IaC ?
Moreover, defining infrastructure as code also:
Allows infrastructure to easily integrate into version control mechanisms for tracking and auditing.
Provides the ability to extensively automate infrastructure management.?
Automates infrastructure provisioning and management
Infrastructure as Code tools & platforms
Under the big IaC umbrella, there are all sorts of tools, from dedicated infrastructure management tools to configuration management, from open-source tools to platform-specific IaC options.
When to use IaC?
Users can mix and match any IaC tool and use them in their CI/CD pipelines?depending on the exact requirements. For instance, #terraform #pulumi may be excellent for managing infrastructure across multiple cloud environments yet limited when the in-depth configuration is required.
in those situations, users can utilize a tool such as #Ansible #chef and #puppet to carry out the necessary configurations.
Thank you