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Infrastructure as Code Vs Configuration Management Vs Infrastructure Provisioning

In General
December 15, 2022


In this blog, you will learn the concept and differences between Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure Provisioning. We will also look at popular tools for each and how they work together.

If you are trying to become a DevOps engineer, you might get confused between the use cases of Terraform and configurations management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc. Therefore, it is essential to understand the difference between infrastructure as code, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management.

Let’s look at some of the fundamentals from an infrastructure standpoint before moving on to the key concepts.

  1. Infrastructure: IT infrastructure is a combination of hardware and software components. (Servers, Storage, Network, Firewall Devices, Routers, etc)
  2. Provisioning: In IT, provisioning is the process of creating infrastructure and making it available to end users.
  3. Configuration: It is the process of configuring the provisioned IT…



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