Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration

In the last few decades, the size of the average infrastructure and the complexity of the stack have skyrocketed. Managing infrastructure on an ad-hoc basis, as was once possible, is very error-prone. In a DevOps culture, the provisioning and configuration of servers, networks, and services in general, are performed through automation. Configuration management is often what the DevOps movement is known for. However, as you know, this is just a small piece of a big puzzle.