How deeply does Automating API Delivery cover infrastructure as code?

Defines the practice and names tools and benefits, but provides no provisioning commands or configuration walkthrough.

Infrastructure as code

Infrastructure as code is the declarative definition and management of infrastructure resources and topologies in version-controlled files.

Manual provisioning can leave deployment environments inconsistent. Infrastructure as code (IaC) defines system resources and their topology in a descriptive model, so teams can manage infrastructure definitions in version control rather than relying on manual setup. section 1.2

Definitions can describe networks, virtual machines, and load balancers. Tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation automate provisioning from those definitions. Reapplying them helps teams recreate the same environment, reduce drift, and make deployments more repeatable. section 1.2

IaC concerns infrastructure; configuration as code applies a similar version-controlled approach to deployed applications. Both fit alongside CI/CD practices that build and deploy tested artifacts. section 1.2

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Terraformimplemented by · Terraform is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool for defining, provisioning, and managing infrastructure resources through declarative configuration.
versioninguses · The practice of identifying and managing successive revisions of files, data, models, interfaces, or other artifacts so changes can be tracked and earlier states recovered.
declarative programmingused by · Declarative programming is a programming paradigm that specifies desired results, states, relationships, or rules without prescribing the step-by-step operations that produce them.
GitOpsused by · GitOps is an operational approach that uses version-controlled declarative configuration as the source of truth and automation to apply or reconcile system state.
Ansibleincludes · Ansible is an open-source automation and configuration-management tool for configuring systems, deploying applications, and orchestrating tasks across managed hosts.

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