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Holden Morris is a Solutions Architect at Linode.
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The Alternative Cloud™
Best Practices for Designing Your IaC Infrastructure
May 17, 2021
by Holden Morris
IaC infrastructure is designed to maximize the benefits of cloud computing and leverage automated configuration and deployment tools.
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