DevOps: Infrastructure as Code Done Honestly

Your team manages AWS infrastructure by hand-clicking the console. Make the case for, and plan the migration to, infrastructure as code.

Technical Reference & Key Concepts

The Challenge: From Click-Ops to Code

Infrastructure is configured by hand in the AWS console: security groups, load balancers, databases. Nobody knows what changed or who changed it.

Core questions to address:

  1. What are the concrete failure modes of manual infrastructure, and what does IaC fix?
  2. How would you migrate WITHOUT rewriting everything and risking an outage?
  3. What guardrails make IaC safe (state, reviews, drift)?