TA-002-P · Question #382
What advantage does an operations team that uses infrastructure as code have?
The correct answer is B. The ability to reuse best practice configurations and settings. A primary advantage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for operations teams is the ability to define, reuse, and standardize best practice configurations across different environments.
Question
What advantage does an operations team that uses infrastructure as code have?
Options
- AThe ability to delete infrastructure
- BThe ability to reuse best practice configurations and settings
- CThe ability to autoscale a group of servers
- DThe ability to update existing infrastructure
How the community answered
(35 responses)- A6% (2)
- B89% (31)
- C3% (1)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
A primary advantage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for operations teams is the ability to define, reuse, and standardize best practice configurations across different environments.
While IaC tools can delete infrastructure, this is a capability, not the primary 'advantage' over manual deletion, as the advantage lies more in the reproducibility and versioning of the process itself.
IaC allows infrastructure configurations to be defined in code, which can then be version controlled, shared, and reused across different projects or environments, ensuring consistent application of best practices and reducing configuration drift. This promotes standardization and efficiency.
Autoscaling is a feature of cloud providers or applications, not an inherent advantage of IaC itself, although IaC can be used to configure autoscaling.
IaC certainly allows updating existing infrastructure, but like deletion, the primary advantage is how it's updated (reproducibly, versioned, consistent), which is encompassed by reusing configurations.
Concept tested: Benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Source: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/intro/use-cases/infrastructure-as-code
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