Environment Configuration

In the last step, we discussed Infrastructure As Code with Terraform. In this step, we explore environment configuration.

Configuration As Code

Configuration as code, along with Infrastructure as Code, can help you make the management and configuration of your environments automated and consistent.

Configuration as code scripts and environment definitions, when used with tools for managing system configuration, are usually idempotent or can be run multiple times because the scripts or definitions will look for the state of services and install and configure if not running.

Idempotence is the property that a deployment command always sets the target environment into the same configuration, regardless of the environment’s starting state. Idempotency is achieved by either automatically configuring an existing target or by discarding the existing target and re-creating a fresh environment.

The following table lists the major differences between manual configuration and configuration as code

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