How To Prevent the IaC Misconfiguration Snowball Effect

The goal with infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation is to make infrastructure provisioning more efficient. Through a combination of automation and either imperative or declarative configuration, IaC makes it easier to deploy the same environment consistently and repeatedly.

IaC’s immutability and machine readability are huge advantages when it comes to building, deploying and testing infrastructure. It allows for storing ...