From the course: Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

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Beginning with a look back: How did we get here?

Beginning with a look back: How did we get here? - Terraform Tutorial

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Beginning with a look back: How did we get here?

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- All right, so I want to give a little bit of a history lesson of where Infrastructure as Code fits into the overall picture of infrastructure management and kind of how we've done things differently over the years. So there've been a bunch of paradigm shifts since the advent of IT, going all the way back to the 1960s. So we kind of started out with the mainframe era, and this went through the 1980s. Technically, it's still going on today. It's not very prevalent, obviously. We moved into client/server, and we'll talk about some of the different aspects of these. We're just trying to get a timeline right now. Client/server is essentially distributed workstations in a database. Finally, think we moved into distributed computing where we had many servers. We began to virtualize things in the 2000s, right? So many operating systems per server. And then today, we're in the cloud era. And this is where something like Infrastructure as Code really starts coming into play. You could…

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