--- title: Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future | daily.dev description: Joe Duffy: Infrastructure as code allows you to automate manual processes. Duffy: We'll talk about current state of infrastructure as code and what tools exist... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/infrastructure-as-code-past-present-future-yi9pejhix twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future | daily.dev og:description: Joe Duffy: Infrastructure as code allows you to automate manual processes. Duffy: We'll talk about current state of infrastructure as code and what tools exist... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/infrastructure-as-code-past-present-future-yi9pejhix og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Yi9PEjHix.png og:image:alt: Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 32 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Joe Duffy: Infrastructure as code allows you to automate manual processes. Duffy: We'll talk about current state of infrastructure as code and what tools exist out there. The first tool that I'll point to in this evolution is CFEngine. CFEngine was really the first approach of taking a similar approach to what we saw with Make. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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