Modern solutions utilize distributed infrastructure to deliver business value. Manual management of those assets is error-prone, time-consuming, and does not scale.
Fortunately, we often leverage a virtual infrastructure offered by the cloud providers. One of the benefits of a cloud is that we can describe it using code. That approach is called Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
What benefits does IaC offer?
IaC enables using agile software development methodology to describe and manage infrastructure.
As a result, we achieve the:
- Ease of reviewing the environment’s configuration because it is defined using the source code. You don’t need to log into the AWS Web Console and manually browse cloud resources.
- Quick reproducibility of the working setup by invoking our code again. Moreover, we can experiment with various configurations by modifying the parameters of our invocations.
- Version the source code to track changes introduced to the environment. This is crucial for debugging and auditory purposes.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) offers a modern way to manage Infrastructure as Code. I will cover that tool in my future posts.
