Infrastructure as Code for Performance Engineering: Automating Deployment and Testing with Terraform and Ansible
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Infrastructure as Code, Performance Engineering, Terraform, Ansible, Automated Deployment, Performance Testing.Abstract
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become an important part of current performance engineering that makes automation and consistency possible. Setting up performance testing setups by hand is generally not consistent, takes longer, and gives incorrect results. This theoretical study investigates the function of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in automating deployment and performance testing with Terraform and Ansible. The suggested method looks at deployment efficiency, configuration consistency, and performance test reliability by comparing human infrastructure management to an automated IaC-driven approach. To see if deployment speed, configuration accuracy, and consistency of performance results have been better, we employ percentage-based frequency analysis. The results show that IaC cuts down on deployment time, keeps configuration drift to a minimum, and makes performance testing more repeatable. The study shows how important it is to use Terraform for setting up infrastructure and Ansible for managing configurations to create performance engineering workflows that are scalable, dependable, and efficient.
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