How The Maturing 'Infrastructure-As-Code' Market Has Changed The Path Of Software Development
SiliconANGLE , Tuesday, December 12,2023
Infrastructure as code, the practice of managing and provisioning cloud infrastructure through software code rather than manually, may be the darling of many analysts, as the IaC market is projected to reach more than $2 billion in 2027. But it's going through some growing pains as it matures.
A recent analysis by Jason Turim on The New Stack brings to light the latest challenges and prospects of using infrastructure-as-code techniques. IaC describes the automation of common application development tasks to orchestrate cloud workloads and allocate resources as part of normal coding pipelines. Instead of manually configuring servers and databases, IaC puts this information into scripts that when run create the necessary infrastructure.
That means that a developer can quickly pre-populate identical development, testing and production environments and avoid common manual configuration errors. But though this is a boon for developers and does help speed up coding projects, IaC also creates new risks in terms of security and governance.