Question

A development team repeatedly encounters bugs that appear only in production but cannot be reproduced in their staging environment. Investigation reveals that staging was built by one engineer clicking through the cloud console, while production was set up months earlier by a different engineer using slightly different settings. Which core advantage of Infrastructure as Code most directly addresses this problem?

Accepted Answer

IaC lets the same configuration files provision staging and production identically, ensuring environment consistency across deployments

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IaC automatically detects and corrects security vulnerabilities in cloud resources

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IaC eliminates the need for a staging environment by testing directly in production

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IaC reduces cloud spending by automatically selecting the cheapest available resources