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Infrastructure as code and the management plane

Infrastructure as code and the management plane

From the course: ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Cert Prep

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Infrastructure as code and the management plane

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- [Person] Welcome to this lesson on infrastructure as code and the management plane. In this lesson, of course, we have two key concepts to go over, the first one is infrastructure as code strategy, and then, the second one is the management plane. Starting with IaC strategy, I want to first reemphasize the concept of IaC because it's incredibly useful in creating infrastructure in a modern cloud-computing environment. The core principle behind IaC is to write system configuration files or scripts which are then used by a cloud service to create and manage resources according to the predefined specifications within those scripts. This automation minimizes the risk of human error, which is very often a factor in security breaches. Manual tasks, especially repetitive ones like server deployment, are very prone to mistakes, and IaC ensures that every deployment is performed identically. This reduces the likelihood of mis-configurations or inconsistencies across the cloud environment…

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