This document discusses infrastructure as code and its benefits. Infrastructure as code refers to managing infrastructure resources like virtual machines, networks, and configuration through code. This allows infrastructure to be treated like code that can be version controlled, tested, and continuously deployed. Some key benefits include faster release times, consistent environments, increased security, structure and automation. Infrastructure as code helps define environments in a human readable way and provisions them consistently from development to production. It also enables immutable infrastructure that extends version control principles to infrastructure management.