The Benefits and Challenges of Infrastructure as Code
The Benefits and Challenges of Infrastructure as CodeBenefits The rollout of new software releases has been streamlined through DevOps practices . DevOps enables the automation of software development, testing and deployment, eliminating many time-consuming, manual processes. Developers can focus on more high-value tasks, and operations teams can move code into production more quickly. Software is released with fewer errors and security vulnerabilities. Hardware provisioning remains a largely manual process, however. Because different specialists handle various aspects of the IT infrastructure, the configuration of equipment often involves multiple teams. The deployment of equipment for a single remote site could take weeks and consume a significant amount of IT resources. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is emerging as an industry-standard approach to resolving such challenges. Growing out of DevOps practices, IaC uses code to automate the provisioning and management of serve...