Using IaC Scanning to find problems in infrastructure configuration files

In the last decade or so, the phrase “treat hardware as cattle, not pets” has been used to describe a new approach to managing computers. By thinking of hardware as a fungible commodity rather than a collection of special snowflakes, development and operations teams are liberated from carefully configuring and maintaining the computers they use to host deployment environments, run databases, serve web applications, or do any of the countless other tasks involved with developing and deploying software. By using so-called IaC tools such as Ansible or Terraform to configure and maintain the configuration state on hardware (whether real or virtual, local or cloud-based), system administrators can adjust server capacity, create new environments, or experiment with hardware configurations without worrying about how difficult it will be to revert their systems if something goes wrong or an experiment fails...