Question

A platform engineering team currently provisions infrastructure by having individual engineers run shell scripts from their laptops. Changes are frequently applied without any peer review, and the team struggles to understand who changed what and why. Leadership wants to adopt Infrastructure as Code specifically to improve how proposed infrastructure changes are reviewed and discussed before they take effect. Which advantage of IaC most directly addresses this goal?

Accepted Answer

Because infrastructure is defined in text files, proposed changes can go through a pull request workflow where teammates review and approve them before they are applied.

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IaC guarantees that no two engineers can ever run terraform apply against the same environment at the same time.

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IaC automatically provisions resources faster than manual scripts, eliminating the need for any review.

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IaC removes the need for cloud provider credentials, so security reviews are no longer required.