What is ‘infrastructure as code’ and why do you need it?

As DevOps grows, it helps to know about how it works. One of the big things in DevOps is “infrastructure as code.” This means that you treat your infrastructure the exact same as you would treat your application code. So you’ll check it into version control, write tests for it, and make sure that it doesn’t diverge from what you have across multiple environments. Handling infrastructure as code prevents problems like unexpected code changes and configuration divergence between environments like production and development. It also ensures that every deployment you do is the exact same. You don’t have to worry…

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