If Your Infrastructure Exists Only as a Series of Clicks, You Have a Problem

Short summary

Manual cloud infrastructure configured through console clicks is unreproducible, undocumented, and fragile when key personnel leave. Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible solve this by describing resources in version-controlled files, enabling identical environment creation in minutes and disaster recovery under an hour. The article provides a practical migration path starting with a single non-critical resource and expanding gradually.

• •Manual console-based infrastructure lacks reproducibility, documentation, and audit trails
• •Terraform provisions cloud resources; Ansible configures them; Git versions everything
• •Start small with one resource, use terraform import, and expand gradually week by week

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