Infrastructure-as-Code: 6 Best Practices for Securing Applications

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Most modern applications deploy automatically on infrastructure created and configured via code. This practice, called Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) allows development teams to manage how applications are deployed and run on cloud infrastructure. It is being adopted by organizations to rapidly provision and deploy cloud environments — especially those that include containerized applications that run on Kubernetes.

And with this practice comes changes in responsibility: IaC further extends developers’ responsibility to include securing their code and infrastructure.

Pipelines are defined in code, the same as apps and IaC.

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