In the past you would stand up and hand-configure all of the hardware that would run your software. This is a way to define the hardware configuration in software and apply it automatically. Advantages of this approach include increased scalability, reproducibility, and being able to use version control.
Plus, it is idempotent, which means you don’t have to change it before pushing it to an existing infrastructure. If you do change it, the infrastructure will be updated to match. It ends the need for custom deployment scripts.
Infrastructure as Code
In the past you would stand up and hand-configure all of the hardware that would run your software. This is a way to define the hardware configuration in software and apply it automatically. Advantages of this approach include increased scalability, reproducibility, and being able to use version control.
Plus, it is idempotent, which means you don’t have to change it before pushing it to an existing infrastructure. If you do change it, the infrastructure will be updated to match. It ends the need for custom deployment scripts.