(I)nfra-(A)s-(C)ode

DevOps is a set of practices and tools that aims to improve collaboration and communication between development and operations teams, with the goal of delivering software more quickly, reliably, and efficiently.

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Popular IaC Tools:

Terraform An open-source declarative tool that offers pre-written modules to build and manage an infrastructure.

Chef: A configuration management tool that uses cookbooks and recipes to deploy the desired environment. Best used for Deploying and configuring applications using a pull-based approach.

Puppet: Popular tool for configuration management that follows a Client-Server Model. Puppet needs agents to be deployed on the target machines before the puppet can start managing them.

Ansible: Ansible is used for building infrastructure as well as deploying and configuring applications on top of them. Best used for Ad hoc analysis.

Packer: Unique tool that generates VM images (not running VMs) based on steps you provide. Best used for Baking compute images.

Vagrant: Builds VMs using a workflow. Best used for Creating pre-configured developer VMs within VirtualBox.