Infrastructure Automation at a Glance

Introduction

Infrastructure automation refers to the concept of minimizing manual intervention where the provisioning or management of IT systems is concerned. With this practice, human error is reduced to the barest minimum, and the infrastructure is better secured because there’s less human intervention in the way they’re set up.

It encourages the use of repeatable scripts for provisioning infrastructure and configuring the software/components (database, network, storage, etc.) needed on them.

How infrastructure automation works

With regard to automating infrastructure, there are two types of infrastructure that can be provisioned. They include:

• Mutable infrastructure: This is capable of being modified and updated on the spot. This set of infrastructure is dynamically changed without being reprovisioned, meaning

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