The Roots of Infrastructure as Code
When someone says, “Infrastructure-as-Code,” your mind probably jumps to tools like Chef or Ansible or Terraform, but its origins are much older than that. It has its roots in configuration management, and most configuration management tools use some sort of Infrastructure-as-Code approach. It turns out that we’ve had trouble managing and configuring fleets of machines since we first decided to let them talk to one another, whether they’re virtual machines or containers on a cloud provider, or physical machines in a lab.
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