Benefits of Deployment Using IaC Model

In the pre-cloud era, the operations team provisioned the required infrastructure based on demand. Typically, this setup process involves multiple approvals, and it usually takes a few weeks before the hardware is successfully provisioned.

Challenges with manual infrastructure provisioning

Manually provisioning the infrastructure caused a lot of challenges to organizations:

• The servers needed to be patched and updated on time.

• The deployments were slow because manual provisioning had to happen before the software could be installed.

• Infrastructure costs were high as there was no option to scale down during the off-peak season.

• Outages during the peak season as the infrastructure needs to scale up quickly to meet the sudden spike in traffic.

• Auditing infrastructure changes were complex. ...