Some of the major challenges today when building infrastructure are predictability, scalability and automated recovery. A predictable system will promote the exact same artifact that you tested into your production system so no intermittent failure can cause any trouble. A scalable system makes it trivial, especially automatically, to deal with any rise in traffic. And automated recovery will make sure your team can focus on building a better product and sleep during the night instead of maintaining infrastructure constantly.
At Codeship we’ve found that an Infrastructure made up of immutable components has helped us tremendously with these goals.
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Monday, July 28, 2014
