Understanding IaC
As the landscape of IT infrastructure management continues to evolve, ways of moving from manual tasks and manual updates have taken center stage. Weekly maintenance jobs such as configuration sanity checks or daily change request meetings have proven to be just a “wash-rinse-repeat” for many IT professionals. Though you’re gaining valuable experience to move your career forward (that is learning processes, understanding best practices and network requirements, and so on), at some point, these tasks become banal and less challenging. If these processes were placed in a framework of sorts or perhaps a methodology/approach that involves treating network infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management as software development tasks, then it would be more enticing and engaging.
A paradigm shift known as IaC has emerged as a game-changer. As organizations strive to meet the demands of scalability, agility, and reliability, IaC offers a...
