--- title: "The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-basics-of-infrastructure-as-code-a-primer-for-devops-ppqstdzwa source_url: https://devops.com/the-basics-of-infrastructure-as-code-a-primer-for-devops/ type: article source: "DevOps.com" published: 2024-05-10T19:07:02.107Z updated: 2024-05-10T19:07:01.297Z tags: ["cloud", "devops", "automation", "iac"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: 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. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-basics-of-infrastructure-as-code-a-primer-for-devops-ppqstdzwa)