!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a type of [Information Technology] [Architecture] [Model] wherein [Development Teams] or [Operations Teams] automatically manage and provision the technology stack for an [application] through [software], rather than using a manual process to configure discrete [hardware] [devices] and [Operating Systems]. 


[{$pagename}] is sometimes referred to as programmable or software-defined infrastructure and is a extension of the [DevOps] concept.

[Development Teams] can use [code] for [Resource Provisioning] (deploying [servers] and [applications], rather than rely on system administrators in a [DevOps] environment. A [Development Team] might write an [{$pagename}] process for [Provisioning] a new [application] for quality assurance or experimental deployment before operations takes over for live deployment in [Production tier].

With the infrastructure setup written as [code], [Development Team] can go through the same [Version Control System], [Continuous testing], and other steps of a [Continuous integration] and [Continuous Delivery] (CI/CD) pipeline that [Development Teams] use for [application] [code]. Many [organizations] choose to combine [{$pagename}] with [containers], which abstract the [application] from the [infrastructure] at the [Operating System] level. Because the [Operating System] and [hardware] infrastructure is provisioned automatically and the application is encapsulated atop it, these technologies prove complementary for diverse [deployment tiers].

[{$pagename}]s often use [Computing platform] or "[Stack]"

[{$pagename}] often uses [Configuration] [Parameters] (or [Variables]) build the [{$pagename}] for a particular [Deployment tier] 

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