To pioneer the new practices for their large scale, highly reliable IT infrastructure, organisations are provisioning and changing systems to promise a transformation in its infrastructure with IaC.

1. Infrastructure as Code:
Principles and Practices

2. Index
● Introduction
● What and Why?
● Benefits of IaC
● Best Practices of IaC
● Conclusion

3. To pioneer the new practices for their large scale, highly
reliable IT infrastructure, organisations are provisioning
and changing systems to promise a transformation in its
infrastructure.
Introduction

4. What and Why ?
● IaC builds an IT setup that lets you manage the
technology stack for an application without manual
processing and configuring discrete hardware devices
and operating systems.
● It uses descriptive language to code more versatile and
adaptive provisioning and deployment processes.

5. Benefits of Infrastructure as
Code

6. Lighting Speed
● IaC allows you to quickly and easily develop, stage, and produce efficient
environments. You can standardise the process by simply writing codes and
running them.
Super Consistency
● The infrastructure setup reduces the possibility of oversights and decreases
chances of incompatibility issues with the infrastructure. This also helps your
applications to run more smoothly and hassle-free.

7. Minimum Risk
● With the automated process you are provided with proper documentation for the
infrastructure. It safeguards the institutional knowledge from leakage in case any
employee leaves the organisation. IaC allows server configuration that can be
documented, logged and tracked later for reference.
Higher Efficiency
● With the implementation of the IaC, productivity among developers and the team is
said to improve drastically as the cloud architectures are deployed at stages where
the software development life cycle becomes more efficient. With everything
automated and organised, engineers save up on time and cost which can be wisely
invested in performing other manual tasks and higher-value jobs.

8. Best Practices For IaC

9. Everything Codified
● The main element of Infrastructure as Code is explicit coding to configure files
in use. More than provisioning, it reduces the misconfiguration in the
application with seamless deployment and single source of truth of your
infrastructure specifications.
Documentation to Minimum
● With IaC, the code itself represents the updated documentation of the
infrastructure. No additional documentation is required except setup
instructions. Everything is coded and ideally keeps documentation to a
minimum.

10. Version controlled, Tested and Integrated
● IaC allows you to track and give insights on what, who and why anything
changed in the process of deployment. Moreover, every action can be tested
and repeated at multiple stages that lead to better management of the
infrastructure.
● From unit to integration test, depending on your needs, you can rigorously
apply them to your infrastructure configurations to ensure elimination of
bugs and threats. A sound integration process leads to templating the
provision multiple times in different environments such as Dev, Test, and
QA.

11. Code Modularisation
● Microservices architecture can be applied to IaC where the modular units
of code can be independently deployed. By breaking the infrastructure
into small modules or stacks, you can grasp greater accountability over
who has access to which parts of your infrastructure code.
Immutable infrastructure
● IT infrastructure components are required to be replaced for each
deployment. The process of terminating the stack can be made
consistent with immutable infrastructure to avoid configuration drift
and to restrict the impact of undocumented changes in the stack.

12. Conclusion
Infrastructure as Code is shifting organisational apparatuses
to accelerate processes, document infrastructure and
maintains consistency in the policies to minimize error and
maximize money in no time. Pacing with the changes and
moving along the next generation of technology, IaC can
make you catch the flight to success and advancement.

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