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'''Infrastructure as code''' ('''IaC''') is the process of managing and provisioning computer [[data center]] resources through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.<ref name="AWS in Action, IaC" />
The [[IT infrastructure]] managed by this process comprises both physical equipment, such as [[bare-metal server]]s, as well as [[virtual machine]]s, and associated configuration resources.
The definitions may be in a [[Version Control System|version control system]], rather than maintaining the code through manual processes.
The code in the definition files may use either scripts or declarative definitions, rather than maintaining the code through manual processes, but IaC more often employs [[declarative programming|declarative]] approaches.
 
==Overview==