Infrastructure as Code
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Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. The IT infrastructure meant by this comprises both physical equipment such as bare-metal servers as well as virtual machines and associated configuration resources. The definitions may be in a version control system. It can use either scripts or declarative definitions, rather than manual processes, but the term is more often used to promote declarative approaches.
Infrastructure as code approaches are promoted for cloud computing, which is sometimes marketed as infrastructure as a service (IaaS). IaC supports IaaS, but should not be confused with it.
Categories
- GitOps
- Terrascan - Open-source infrastructure security scanning tool
- formae - A 100% code-based IaC tool for modern infrastructure management
- Terraform (HashiCorp)
- Ansible
- CFEngine
- Chef
- Otter
- Puppet
- SaltStack
- Alchemy - An embedded IaC library implemented in pure TypeScript