Introduction to Infrastructure as Code and Terraform
Introduction Managing infrastructure manually works fine while the environment is small. As servers, networks, databases, and other services grow, problems with repeatability, documentation, standardization, and change control start to appear. Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, treats infrastructure as versionable, reproducible code. Instead of relying on a sequence of clicks in a console, we describe the desired state of the infrastructure in files. What is Infrastructure as Code? IaC is an approach in which infrastructure resources are defined through files that can be versioned, reviewed, and executed automatically. ...