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Securing infrastructure as code in the pipeline

Securing infrastructure as code in the pipeline

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Securing infrastructure as code in the pipeline

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- [Instructor] One of the newer trends that has become popular in the DevOps world is infrastructure as code. As an industry, we need a way to deploy infrastructure without manual intervention, and that's where IaC came about. So what is IaC? It stands for infrastructure as code, and it's a way of managing and provisioning infrastructure by using code. Think of it just like source code for deploying your infrastructure. You can use CloudFormation or Terraform as a couple of examples, and build your infrastructure in a code viewer. It's as simple as that. And the main reason that you would do this is to get rid of any of the manual parts of deploying your infrastructure. You don't want any manual parts in your deployment. It takes too much time, and the goal of DevOps is to take less time. So you really want to get rid of deploying infrastructure manually. This is an example of infrastructure as code, and you can…

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