Infrastructure as Code Best Practices

# Infrastructure as Code Best Practices

Treat your infrastructure like software. Version it, test it, and review it.

## Why IaC?

**Reproducibility**

Create identical environments every time. No more "works on my machine."

**Version Control**

Track changes, review them, and roll back when needed.

**Documentation**

Your code IS your documentation. Always up-to-date.

## Tool Choices

**Terraform**

Multi-cloud, declarative, huge ecosystem.

**Pulumi**

Use real programming languages. Great for complex logic.

**CloudFormation**

AWS-native, deeply integrated.

## Best Practices

- Modularize your code

- Use remote state

- Implement CI/CD for infrastructure

- Test with smaller environments first

- Never modify infrastructure manually

Automate everything. Manual changes are technical debt.