Which statement describes a goal of infrastructure as code?

Abstracting from vendor-specific APIs describes the role of a provider or SDK abstraction layer, which is a mechanism IaC tools use but not the defining goal of IaC itself.

'Write once, run anywhere' is a portability principle associated with Java's JVM model and does not accurately describe the goals of infrastructure as code.

A pipeline process to test and deliver software describes CI/CD practices, which are complementary to IaC workflows but represent a distinct engineering discipline.

The primary goal of IaC is to replace manual, interactive infrastructure provisioning with code that declaratively or imperatively defines the desired state of resources. This enables automation, repeatability, peer review, and version control of infrastructure changes in the same way application source code is managed. Terraform fulfills this goal by allowing operators to define resource configurations in HCL files that the engine then applies against cloud provider APIs.