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.
