Infrastructure as code

[alanmcg]

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_Code

Original comment:
As mentioned by someone in another ticket, infrastructure as code was the "next big thing" not long ago (it still is a big thing, but it's already here).

Terraform is the leader in this area with competitors such as AWS cloud formation.

"infra as code" comes with it's own issues, you can just as easily automate the total destruction of your production environment as you can create a new one if you are not careful. There is a lot of documentation and blog posts on using terraform etc, but they are typically a bit out of date. A devops course with a section on IAC would be awesome

[monperrus]

DNS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System) is a key DevOps infrastructure (and that's the code service of Cloudflare)

[monperrus]

A Systematic Mapping Study of Infrastructure as Code Research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584918302507

[bbaudry]

Terraform
https://www.terraform.io/

[bbaudry]

Infra as code
https://itnext.io/docker-makefile-x-ops-sharing-infra-as-code-parts-ea6fa0d22946

[monperrus]

Pets versus Cattle

Stop Killing Your Cattle: Server Infrastructure Advice
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/stop-killing-your-cattle

[bbaudry]

Security Smells in Infrastructure as Code Scripts

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07159

[monperrus]

What about merging this thread into #2?

[monperrus]

Merged into #2