Overview

IaC allows teams to treat infrastructure like software. It enables version control, automated testing, and rapid deployment of environments.

Key Benefits

  • Consistency: Eliminates inconsistencies (configuration drift) between different environments.
  • Speed: Rapidly deploy complex architectures.
  • Auditability: Changes are tracked in version control systems like Git.

Popular Tools

  • Terraform
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Ansible

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