The benefits of IaC

The benefits of IaC are as follows:

• The standardization of infrastructure configuration reduces the risk of error.
• The code that describes the infrastructure is versioned and controlled in a source code manager.
• The code is integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Deployments that make infrastructure changes are faster and more efficient.
• There's better management, control, and a reduction in infrastructure costs.

IaC also brings benefits to a DevOps team by allowing Ops to be more efficient on infrastructure improvement tasks rather than spending time on manual configuration and by giving Dev the possibility to upgrade their infrastructures and make changes without having to ask for more Ops resources.

IaC also allows the creation of self-service, ephemeral environments that will give developers and testers more flexibility to test new features in isolation and independently of other environments.