Strategy

Are These Infrastructure as Code Symptoms Costing Your Business?

The Symptoms

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been a game-changer in the world of “DevOps”. The practice has matured and gain enough acceptance that many organizations now consider their IaC code to be a part of their DR (Disaster Recovery) strategy and a key component of their change management process.

In this post, I’d like to discuss some of the side effect symptoms in IaC adoption at the various organizations I have worked with that are troublesome. I’m not going to go over solutions or improvements in this post, but instead focus on the first step of identifying and articulating the problems.