Introduction: The Infrastructure Problem DevOps Was Built to Solve
Modern software delivery demands velocity. Organizations release features daily, sometimes hundreds of times per day. Yet infrastructure has historically remained one of the slowest and most fragile components of the delivery lifecycle.
Servers were provisioned manually. Firewall rules were configured through administrative consoles. Networking changes depended on ticket queues. Documentation became obsolete almost immediately after being written.
The result was predictable.
Developers struggled with inconsistent environments. Operations teams became bottlenecks. Production outages emerged from undocumented changes. Scaling became increasingly arduous as systems grew.
