Infrastructure as Code principles and practices

Infrastructure as Code principles and practices

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  Infrastructure as Code: Principlesand Practices
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  Index ● Introduction ● Whatand Why? ● Benefits of IaC ● Best Practices of IaC ● Conclusion
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  To pioneer thenew practices for their large scale, highly reliable IT infrastructure, organisations are provisioning and changing systems to promise a transformation in its infrastructure. Introduction
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  What and Why? ● IaC builds an IT setup that lets you manage the technology stack for an application without manual processing and configuring discrete hardware devices and operating systems. ● It uses descriptive language to code more versatile and adaptive provisioning and deployment processes.
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  Benefits of Infrastructureas Code
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  Lighting Speed ● IaCallows you to quickly and easily develop, stage, and produce efficient environments. You can standardise the process by simply writing codes and running them. Super Consistency ● The infrastructure setup reduces the possibility of oversights and decreases chances of incompatibility issues with the infrastructure. This also helps your applications to run more smoothly and hassle-free.
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  Minimum Risk ● Withthe automated process you are provided with proper documentation for the infrastructure. It safeguards the institutional knowledge from leakage in case any employee leaves the organisation. IaC allows server configuration that can be documented, logged and tracked later for reference. Higher Efficiency ● With the implementation of the IaC, productivity among developers and the team is said to improve drastically as the cloud architectures are deployed at stages where the software development life cycle becomes more efficient. With everything automated and organised, engineers save up on time and cost which can be wisely invested in performing other manual tasks and higher-value jobs.
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  Best Practices ForIaC
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  Everything Codified ● Themain element of Infrastructure as Code is explicit coding to configure files in use. More than provisioning, it reduces the misconfiguration in the application with seamless deployment and single source of truth of your infrastructure specifications. Documentation to Minimum ● With IaC, the code itself represents the updated documentation of the infrastructure. No additional documentation is required except setup instructions. Everything is coded and ideally keeps documentation to a minimum.
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  Version controlled, Testedand Integrated ● IaC allows you to track and give insights on what, who and why anything changed in the process of deployment. Moreover, every action can be tested and repeated at multiple stages that lead to better management of the infrastructure. ● From unit to integration test, depending on your needs, you can rigorously apply them to your infrastructure configurations to ensure elimination of bugs and threats. A sound integration process leads to templating the provision multiple times in different environments such as Dev, Test, and QA.
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  Code Modularisation ● Microservicesarchitecture can be applied to IaC where the modular units of code can be independently deployed. By breaking the infrastructure into small modules or stacks, you can grasp greater accountability over who has access to which parts of your infrastructure code. Immutable infrastructure ● IT infrastructure components are required to be replaced for each deployment. The process of terminating the stack can be made consistent with immutable infrastructure to avoid configuration drift and to restrict the impact of undocumented changes in the stack.
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  Conclusion Infrastructure as Codeis shifting organisational apparatuses to accelerate processes, document infrastructure and maintains consistency in the policies to minimize error and maximize money in no time. Pacing with the changes and moving along the next generation of technology, IaC can make you catch the flight to success and advancement.
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