What is infrastructure as code and why do companies that use it have an edge?

Infrastructure as a code is a technique that that automatically helps your organizations to control risks, save costs and gain that competitive edge by drastically reducing time to market for new opportunities based on how it is set up

So what exactly is infrastructure as code, its basically writing code to provision infrastructure. The next question a C level executive might ask is why do we need it? The reason we need it is because prior to infrastructure as code, we would have the infrastructure that is provisioned in organizations in documents, these documents are not constantly updated and not everything is tracked. What this means is that your organization is overly dependent on that one employee who has everything in their head but also exposes you to the risk if that employee is not with the company anymore, this is how it can help control risks

By provisioning infrastructure as code, we use a version control system so that every change is made via code and is peer reviewed providing that additional check before we release it. Now you might wonder how it saves costs, lets say we have provisioned an environment for a certain team and it took X amount of hours the first time. When we have a similar request, we can basically rinse and repeat, this generally is a lot faster and frees up engineers or system admins time to focus on other high priority items

Once your organization reaches a certain level of maturity with infrastructure as code , then it will really help you to innovate. For e.g. if you have a new feature requests that needs new infrastructure like GPUs but the rest of infrastructure would be the same, your engineers can provision something up real quick and there we have the new infrastructure on which you can deliver this new feature

In this article we went over why we need infrastructure as code, the how depends on the type of organization and how big or small your organization is. If you want to learn more about it, feel free to reach out to us https://yajur.youcanbook.me/

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