Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning infrastructure and configuration dependencies for application stacks using machine-readable definition files rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.
What is Infrastructure as Code?
- Source Controlled
- In code (Scripts & Templates)
- Automated & Continuous Deployment
- Testing
- Feedback loop (Monitoring)
Categories of IaC tooling
You can use many declarative infrastructure deployment technologies with Azure. These fall into two main categories.