What is ‘infrastructure as code’ and why should you embrace it?

One of the major trends in IT over the past few years has been increased automation and a concurrent decrease in the need for human or manual intervention. Virtualization has made it possible to spin up a virtual server space for developers to do their work in isolation of the production systems, and hypervisors like VMware and Hyper-V make it possible to get one running in under 20 minutes. Of course, provisioning a virtual workspace isn't always so simple. The process may be a lot longer,