Technical Glossary
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Exact Definition
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of managing and provisioning computer cloud infrastructure—such as virtual servers, networks, and databases—using machine-readable definition files.
Architectural Deep Dive
Instead of manually configuring servers and subnets in cloud console dashboards, IaC tools (such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation) define resources as version-controlled code. This guarantees consistent environments, prevents configuration drift, and allows quick disaster recovery.
The ERPStack Approach
We define all database instances, network firewalls, and server groups in Terraform scripts, ensuring your infrastructure is fully documented, tested, and reproducible.