Infrastructure as code: testing and monitoring

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In my last post, I talked about the evolution of infrastructure as code and its role in modern software development. To recap, let's take a quick look back at what an IaC process establishes: in a nutshell, IaC is a methodology that enables you to manage your servers and deploy your applications purely through code. Through some configuration language saved to a file, you define the resources and packages that servers need. These files can be checked into source control, and establish consistent behavior for your application across all of its environments, whether that's production, staging, or a local dev machine. A basic IaC workflow might look something like this:

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