DevOps and IaC go hand in hand. The practice of storing your infrastructure (traditionally the concern of Operations) as code (traditionally the concern of Development) encourages a sharing of responsibilities that facilitates collaboration.
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By automating the PACKAGE, RELEASE, and CONFIGURE activities in the software development life cycle (as pictured), you increase the speed of your releases while also increasing confidence.
Cloud-based IaC encourages architecture for failure: as your resources are virtualized, you must plan for the chance of physical (host) hardware failure, however unlikely.
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