Infrastructure as Code - the next big shift is here
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Introduction
In this blog, we will look at the evolution of software infrastructure; provisioning, delivery and maintenance.
If you are interested in modern DevOps and SRE practices, this article is for you.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a common pattern where virtualized infrastructure and auxiliary services can be managed using configuration expressed in almost any language, usually hosted in a source code repository.
Every once in a while software industry is shaped by significant events called Paradigm Shift. Here are a few such events that made Infrastructure as Code what it is today: