--- title: The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps description: Infrastructure as code (IaC) is reshaping the way organizations design, build, and manage their IT infrastructure and applications. It treats infrastructure as... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-basics-of-infrastructure-as-code-a-primer-for-devops-ppqstdzwa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps | daily.dev og:description: Infrastructure as code (IaC) is reshaping the way organizations design, build, and manage their IT infrastructure and applications. It treats infrastructure as... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-basics-of-infrastructure-as-code-a-primer-for-devops-ppqstdzwa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PpQSTdZWA.png og:image:alt: The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps 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. # The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps **[DevOps.com](https://daily.dev/sources/devops)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Infrastructure as code (IaC) is reshaping the way organizations design, build, and manage their IT infrastructure and applications. It treats infrastructure as software, enabling automated provisioning, configuration, and management. IaC offers benefits such as automation and consistency, version control, scalability, speed, reusability, and testing and validation. Cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP have popularized IaC. DevOps and IaC align well, facilitating continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), collaboration, immutable infrastructure, infrastructure testing, and a feedback loop. The adoption of IaC is crucial in the age of cloud and DevOps, enabling organizations to build and manage infrastructure with the same rigor and discipline as software development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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