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Phoenix image designed by Wannapik In my last post (read it here: [link]) I extolled the virtues of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and described how we rebuilt a new company – Spine Energy Technology – from scratch using an existing IaC template. This extreme application of “lift and shift” proves the incalculable value of well-maintained IaC, and should give some hope to those dreamers whose disaster recovery plan is essentially just terraform apply. However, cloud infrastruct

Phoenix image designed by Wannapik Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is one of the more subtle, yet powerful tools in a Platform Engineer’s belt. More than just a way to codify and store the definition of (cloud) computing resources, IaC is a quintessential reflection of DevOps philosophy: the ability to apply good software engineering practices to the management of (virtual) hardware. Good IaC allows infrastructure to be reliably and repeatable iterated, tested, and released to p