Infrastructure as Code

It is difficult to imagine modern businesses operating without a scalable process to provision and manage the infrastructure. 

Scalable infrastructure management is critical for businesses to adapt quickly to fluctuating workloads and user demands without compromising performance or incurring excessive costs. It offers several key benefits from multiple perspectives:

• Availability: Scalable infrastructure management ensures that the application remains up and running at all times. It minimizes downtime and enables continuous service availability by dynamically adjusting resources based on demand.

• Application Performance: Scalable infrastructure ensures that application performance is not affected by changes in workload. It allows for the seamless addition or removal of resources to maintain optimal performance levels, even during peak periods.

• Better Quality of Service: By enhancing availability and application performance, scalable infrastructure management allows businesses to offer better service quality to their customers. This improved service quality can lead to higher customer satisfaction and loyalty.

• Cost Efficiency: Scalable infrastructure management provides opportunities for cost optimization by scaling down resources during idle times. 

Modern cloud-based infrastructure is particularly adept at scaling to support millions of users. 

However, while it may seem effortless, managing scalability beyond simple autoscaling groups and load balancers can become complex.

As the codebase grows due to the involvement of numerous engineers, the potential for mistakes also increases. While minor issues like syntax errors or forgotten comments can be mitigated quickly, more serious mistakes such as leaked security keys, improper storage security settings, or open security groups can have disastrous consequences.

Therefore, it is crucial to formulate effective ways to manage and provision the infrastructure.

In this post, we’ll explore the most important ways of scaling the provisioning and management of modern application infrastructure.

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