Infrastructure as Code

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Over the past decade, cloud and infrastructure as code have transitioned from shadow IT and startups to mainstream adoption. Organizations have rapidly embraced new technologies in their digital transformation journeys, resulting in a proliferation of unmanageable infrastructure codebases. This shift has created an urgent need to consolidate cloud systems into robust foundations for sustainable growth. The author outlines patterns and practices for developing and evolving infrastructure as code, offering a broader context for its design and implementation. The third edition emphasizes aligning infrastructure with an organization’s strategic goals, such as supporting growth while managing costs effectively. Key topics include foundational concepts like declarative and procedural infrastructure languages, the integration of infrastructure code within a comprehensive platform strategy and enterprise architecture, and methods for testing and delivering infrastructure code. It also delves into infrastructure architecture, leveraging software design lessons to create scalable codebases that adapt to evolving needs. Additionally, it presents patterns for constructing infrastructure that supports platform services across diverse IT landscapes, from physical hardware to cloud-native environments, and discusses workflows that integrate automation and cloud with Agile and DevOps methodologies for effective governance of compliance, cost,