Level Up: Infrastructure As Code

Level 0: What it is and why you should care.

Adam Henley (He/Him)
3 min readMar 30, 2021

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What is Infrastructure as Code?

Infrastructure as Code (or IaC) is a process by which you can manage and provision the infrastructure your code will run on using machine-readable, committable, reviewable configuration files.

Why Infrastructure as Code?

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Adam Henley (He/Him)

I’m a Lead Developer at Flick Electric where I write mostly Ruby on Rails. I also dabble in any language that takes my fancy.