{"id":4876,"date":"2020-05-18T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:05:15","slug":"infrastructure-as-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/backend\/infrastructure-as-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure as Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\t
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  1. Infrastructure as Code<\/a>
  2. Popular IaC solutions<\/a>
  3. Software-defined networking<\/a>
  4. Software-defined data center<\/a>
  5. IBM Cloud Schematics<\/a>
  6. Example: A Multi-zone three-VPC\u2019s network<\/a>
  7. Terraform code<\/a>
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    Infrastructure as Code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Infrastructure<\/span> as Code (IaC) uses a high-level<\/span> descriptive coding language to automate the provisioning of IT infrastructure<\/strong>. This automation eliminates the need for developers<\/span> to manually provision and manage servers<\/span>, operating systems<\/span>, databases<\/span>, and other elements that traditionally need to be set up almost from scratch every time they want to develop, test, or deploy<\/span> an application.IaC is also an essential <\/strong>DevOps<\/strong><\/a> practice<\/strong>, indispensable to a competitively paced software delivery<\/span> lifecycle. It enables DevOps<\/span> teams to rapidly create and version<\/span> infrastructure in the same way they version<\/span> source code<\/span> and to track these versions<\/span> to avoid inconsistency among IT environments that can lead to serious issues during deployment<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Declarative Vs. Imperative<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    There are generally two approaches to IaC: <\/p>\n\n\n\n