Is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. The IT infrastructure managed by this comprises both physical equipment such as bare-metal servers as well as virtual machines and associated configuration resources. The definitions may be in a version control system. It can use either scripts or declarative definitions, rather than manual processes, but the term is more often used to promote declarative approaches. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚
Is the management of infrastructure (networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topology) in a descriptive model, using the same versioning as DevOps team uses for source code. 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭
Is an essential DevOps practice that allows teams quickly and consistently provision and configure application environments in the cloud. Effective use of laC can help teams create self-service, compliant, and traceable production-like environments across the software delivery pipeline to avoid common challenges like configuration drift, environment sprawl, and long wait times for manual provisioning. 𝐀𝐖𝐒
Is the managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code instead of through manual processes.. 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐭