[Book review] Infrastructure As Code

I am currently reading the book Infrastructure As Code

Treating Infrastructure as Code requires not just automation and tools, rather a complete change of mindset from the traditional approaches to Infrastructure management.

Key Lessons:

  • Treat Infrastructure as Software and Data
  • Avoid Snowflake servers
  • Automate everything
  • Automate everything..and let the provisioning, maintenance and lifecycle management happen automatically
  • Automate using specialized DevOps tools rather than custom scripts
  • Implement standard and time tested Software engineering practices such as Testing, Version Control, Change and Release Management etc. for Infrastructure

Automation fear spiral

If you do not follow automation consistently, your automation scripts can get out of sync. with the physical reality which will make the use of automation script even more risky, resulting in a fear spiral.

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(Image courtesy: Chapter 1 of the book)

I plan to write a review of the book, once finished reading

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