Infrastructure as Code

Kind: activity

Layer: Resource Core

Aliases: IaC

Record: architecture:infrastructure-as-code

Severity: contextual

Scope: infrastructure, deployment

Canonical: Ontology

The practice of declaring infrastructure in versioned files and provisioning it from them.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Containerization and before Standards Compliance.

Requires

• Declarative Configuration
• Version Control

Reinforces

• Reproducibility
• Governance

Enables

• Automated Provisioning

Conflicts with

• Manual Infrastructure Changes

In tension with

• Tooling Complexity

Tensions

• Infrastructure as Code / Tooling Complexity

Violated by

• Manual Infrastructure Changes

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment

Required by

• Environment Parity
• Immutable Infrastructure

Refactors

• Environment Parity

Linked from

• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Quality Attributes
• Severity levels
• The resolutions