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Use casemanaging and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable definition files
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Infrastructure as Code

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Managing and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable definition files

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manual infrastructure configuration○UnverifiedHighFresh1
manual infrastructure provisioning○UnverifiedHighFresh1

implemented through

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AWS CloudFormation○UnverifiedHighFresh1
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enables capability

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automated infrastructure deployment○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Version control of infrastructure configurations○UnverifiedHighFresh1
version control of infrastructure○UnverifiedHighFresh1
infrastructure state management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
infrastructure reproducibility○UnverifiedHighFresh1
immutable infrastructure○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
infrastructure drift detection○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

implemented by

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Terraform○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS CloudFormation○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Azure Resource Manager○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Ansible○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Pulumi○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

supports format

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HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language)○UnverifiedHighFresh1
YAML configuration files○UnverifiedHighFresh1
JSON configuration files○UnverifiedHighFresh1
JSON○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
HCL○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
YAML○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

implements through

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AWS CloudFormation○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Terraform○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Ansible○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Pulumi○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports platform

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AWS○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Google Cloud Platform○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Microsoft Azure○UnverifiedHighFresh1

integrates with

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cloud platforms○UnverifiedHighFresh1
CI/CD pipelines○UnverifiedHighFresh1

primary use case

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managing and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable definition files○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports practice

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version control of infrastructure○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports cloud provider

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Amazon Web Services○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Microsoft Azure○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Google Cloud Platform○UnverifiedHighFresh1

reduces risk of

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configuration drift○UnverifiedHighFresh1

benefits include

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reproducible infrastructure deployments○UnverifiedHighFresh1
reduced manual configuration errors○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

enables practice

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DevOps automation and continuous deployment○UnverifiedHighFresh1
DevOps○UnverifiedHighFresh1
version control of infrastructure configurations○UnverifiedHighFresh1
continuous integration and continuous deployment○UnverifiedHighFresh1
infrastructure drift detection○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

enables methodology

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declarative infrastructure management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
DevOps practices○UnverifiedHighFresh1

competes with

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manual server provisioning○UnverifiedHighFresh1

reduces problem

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Configuration drift and manual infrastructure management○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports model

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infrastructure versioning○UnverifiedHighFresh1
immutable infrastructure○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

supports environment

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multi-cloud deployments○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports protocol

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Declarative configuration management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
version control systems○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports methodology

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DevOps continuous integration and deployment○UnverifiedHighFresh1

requires

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infrastructure definition languages○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

popularized by

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cloud computing adoption○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

based on

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desired state configuration principles○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

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