Cloud provisioning (IaC)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an approach to managing data center server, storage, and networking infrastructure. IaC is meant to significantly simplify large-scale configuration and management. With traditional data center infrastructure management, every configuration change required manual action by operators and system administrators. With IaC, infrastructure configuration information is housed in standardized files, which can be read by software that maintains the state of the infrastructure. IaC can improve productivity and reliability because it eliminates manual configuration steps.

Benefits

Improved productivity: Administrators and operators no longer must perform manual configuration steps for data center infrastructure changes.
Improved reliability: The configuration of the infrastructure is contained in electronic files, and software is responsible for initiating infrastructure changes, so there is less chance of human error.
Prevents configuration drift: Terraform, being provisioning software, binds you to make changes in your container and only then deploy the new ones across every server. This separates server configuration from any dependency, resulting in identical instances across our infrastructures.
Easy collaboration: The terraform registry (Terraform’s central registry version control) enables teams to collaborate on infrastructure