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The Foundations of Infrastructure as Code

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May 21, 2025

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Accelerate Delivery, Improve Consistency, and Build a Foundation for AI-Ready Infrastructure

IT teams are being asked to do more with less — and to do it faster. As business executives continue to seize new technology-enabled opportunities, infrastructure management must evolve. From deploying new services to supporting AI initiatives, teams need the flexibility to provision secure, scalable, production-ready environments with minimal delay to keep pace with rapidly changing business requirements.

Cloud-like flexibility and automation are moving deeper into the data center, driven by hybrid architectures, increased use of containers, and AI workloads that require dynamic resource allocation. Static, generic infrastructure won’t work in this environment. It must be flexible, repeatable, and tightly aligned with application and business requirements.

Software development teams have long embraced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as a best practice. It’s standard for DevOps teams to spin up environments using code, collaborate through code repositories, and push changes through automated pipelines. These practices are coming to the data center — and it’s a big shift. 

IaC is more than just another toolset. It’s a new operating model for managing how infrastructure is delivered and maintained — one that brings the speed, consistency, and automation of modern development practices to infrastructure operations.

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About the Author

Michael Downs

Michael Downs

Chief Technology Officer

Michael Downs is Chief Technology Officer of Evolving Solutions. As chief technology officer, Michael leads our team of experts focused on helping clients solve their most challenging problems. He is constantly evaluating emerging technologies and sharing that information with Evolving Solutions’ technical teams so they can better help clients address their business challenges.