Infrastructure as Code
Medium — good to knowCloud & Infra
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ClickOps means building your cloud infrastructure by clicking buttons in AWS console. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) means writing a file that describes exactly what you want — 3 EC2 instances, a load balancer, a database — and a tool creates it. Now your infrastructure lives in git, has code review, and can be reproduced exactly.
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