Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Everyone
Talk and workshop presented at JConf Dominicana — July 2024 What is IaC? Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a fundamental practice in DevOps and modern system administration. It involves managing and provisioning infrastructure through human-readable configuration files, rather than through manual processes or graphical interfaces. Key Benefits: Code Versioning: Store your infrastructure in Git. Replicability: Create identical environments (Dev, QA, Prod) consistently. Speed: Deploy servers and networks in seconds. Cost Reduction: Avoid human errors and forgotten/zombie resources. Why “for everyone”? IaC is often thought to be exclusively for large cloud architectures. However, automation principles are useful at any scale: from setting up a personal server to deploying complex clusters. If you have to install, configure, or back up something more than once, you should be using IaC. ...
