The Foundations of Infrastructure as Code
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.
