Infrastructure as code(IaC) is a way to use source code, or formatted scripts, to define and manage the process of deploying and managing computer networks. The two popular camps for realizing this vision are imperative and declarative camps.

IaC is often mentioned in the automation practices in the context of DevOps. It is also known as a CCA, which stands for Continuous configuration automation.

Notable CCA Implementations

The two camps have their popular implementations. For imperative IaC, many uses Ansible as an example. For declarative IaC,Terraform is often mentioned.

Notable CCA tools include:

Tool	Released by	Initial release	Method	Approach	Written in
Ansible	RedHat	2012; Template:Years or months ago (2012)	Push	Declarative and imperative	Python
CFEngine	CFEngine	1993; Template:Years or months ago (1993)	Pull	Declarative	C^[1]
Chef	Chef	2009; Template:Years or months ago (2009)	Pull	Imperative	Ruby
Otter	Inedo	-	Push	Declarative and imperative	-
Pulumi	Pulumi	2017; Template:Years or months ago (2017)	Push	Declarative and imperative	TypeScript, Python, Go, C
Puppet	Puppet	2005; Template:Years or months ago (2005)	Pull	Declarative	C++, Clojure since 4.0, Ruby
SaltStack	SaltStack	2011; Template:Years or months ago (2011)	Push and Pull	Declarative and imperative	Python
Terraform	HashiCorp	2014; Template:Years or months ago (2014)	Push	Declarative	Go

↑ https://cfengine.com/learn/what-is-cfengine/

[1] ttps://cfengine.com/learn/what-is-cfengine/

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