Infrastructure as code

As explained in Google Anthos in Action

Infrastructure as Code is the practice of defining and managing computing infrastructure through machine-readable configuration rather than manual procedures.

Infrastructure as Code defines and manages computing infrastructure through machine-readable configuration instead of manual procedures. It supports DevOps and SRE by making infrastructure changes repeatable, reviewable, and automatable, while improving agility and reliability at scale. section 5.0 section 15.1.3

Its operational model combines:

• Declarative configuration describing the target state of a computing environment. section 5.2.2
• Provider mappings that translate configuration into cloud provisioning APIs. section 5.2.2
• Repository workflows such as commit, push, pull, merging, and branching for infrastructure and configuration files. section 15.1.3
• Automation, monitoring, and security practices that support continuous delivery and reliable operations. section 5.0

Provisioning GKE on AWS

Terraform can generate the AWS infrastructure for GKE on AWS, including load balancers, EC2 virtual machines, management services, and node pools. Administrators can initialize and apply the management service, retrieve credentials, and describe clusters or node pools with declarative configuration. section 5.2.2

Figure 5.12 GKE on AWS architecture

Use the architecture diagram to relate Terraform-managed AWS components to the GKE on AWS management service and cluster. section 5.2.2

How Google Anthos in Action covers it

How deep it goes

Defines declarative target state, provider mappings, repository workflows, and a GKE on AWS deployment, without detailing full Terraform syntax.

Examples

Uses GKE on AWS provisioning, Terraform-generated infrastructure, AWS node pools, management services, and repository-based configuration changes.

What it assumes

Assumes familiarity with cloud or cluster infrastructure and introduces machine-readable, declarative management through concrete deployment operations.

What you can do after

Apply it via Terraform or Pulumi to define, version, provision, and manage infrastructure changes systematically.

How it connects

Connects DevOps, SRE, Terraform, Pulumi, continuous delivery, cloud providers, monitoring, and security practices.

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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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