Infra is code
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Infra is code! At first glance, this slogan might be the most stupid one ever read for a long time — if not on the entire planet, then at least in the web sphere. Yes, infrastructure has always been code: from the Ubuntu web server to the Cockroach database, it is nothing but code controlled by code. But if the Ops field has progressively shifted towards the notion of Infrastructure as Code, it is precisely because there is a substantial difference: the DevOps domain is better formalized as a description of reproducible artifacts rather than as a prescription of successive commands to execute. Thus, boldly displaying this slogan Infra is code! on any article should make any somewhat experienced DevOps practitioner pause.