What is Infrastructure as Code?

Learning cloud and DevOps is good, but in the process of learning, I’ve come to understand that Infrastructure as Code is very important. In this article, I will cover What Infrastructure as Code is and the problem it solves The difference between declarative and imperative approaches Why Terraform is worth learning My reason for taking on this 30-day challenge What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) From my reading, Infrastructure as Code means using code to manage and set up infrastructure instead of doing everything manually. It is mostly used by DevOps and cloud engineers to provision resources in the cloud. What problem does it solve? IaC solves a lot of issues, especially what people call click ops. Instead of going to the cloud console and clicking around, which can lead to mistakes, you define everything in code. This makes it easier to repeat the same setup and avoid errors. What are the ways Terraform is defined? There are two ways Terraform is defined in editors: Declarative Im