Infrastructure as Code

**Infrastructure as Code**

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a modern IT practice that involves managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. It enables developers and system administrators to automatically set up, configure, and manage infrastructure using code, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and scalability. IaC is a key component of DevOps and cloud computing strategies, allowing infrastructure to be treated with the same rigor as application code. Common tools used for IaC include Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.