Infrastructure as Code Concepts

External

• https://infrastructure-as-code.com

Internal

• Infrastructure as Code
• Infrastructure Concepts

Overview

Infrastructure is not something you build and forget, in requires constant change: fixing, updating and improving. Infrastructure as Code principles and tools help delivering change more frequently, quickly and reliably, while improving the overall quality of the system at the same time. Used correctly, Infrastructure as Code embeds quality, reliability and compliance into the process of making changes. Changing infrastructure becomes safer.

Core Practices

Define Everything as Code

Code can be versioned and compared, it can benefit from lessons learned in software design patterns, principles and techniques such as test driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery or refactoring.

Continuously Test and Deliver

Continuously testing small pieces encourages a modular, loosely coupled design.

Stack

Collection of infrastructure resources provisioned from cloud platforms.