Infrastructure as Code (IaC) ⚙️
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the foundational practice of managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable definition files, rather than manual hardware configuration.
🛠️ Leading IaC Technologies
- Terraform: Define multi-cloud resources declaratively using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL).
- Pulumi: Define infrastructure using standard programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, Go, and C#.
- Ansible: Automate configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment across target nodes.
🛡️ Infrastructure Testing & Compliance
- Terratest: Write automated tests in Go to validate that your IaC provisions resources correctly.
- Compliance as Code: Build guardrails by automatically checking your Terraform or Pulumi configurations against industry compliance rules before provisioning.