19.1 Simplyfing Complexity Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Servers should be cattle, not pets.

• Alex recommended a two-dimensional Dev/Test/Prod setup

  

  • IT/Admin group make changes to the platform in a staging environment.

  • Data scientists are never granted access to the staging environments and must complete all of their work in the IT/Admin production environment.

• The ideal approach to migrate servers and apps from staging to production is to use IaC and CI/CD to ensure that code changes always make it into production at the proper time.