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- Everything Codified: use explicit coding to configure files not only for initial provisioning but also as a single source of truth for the whole infrastructure lifecycle, to ensure consistency with the intend and to eliminate configuration drift
- Self-Documentation: code itself represents the updated documentation of the infrastructure, to minimise the documentation maintenance burden and to ensure its currency
- Code Modularisation: apply microservices architecture where the modular units of code can be independently deployed and lifecycled in an automated fashion
- Immutability: IT infrastructure components are required to be replaced for each deployment during the system lifecycle to be consistent with immutable infrastructure to avoid configuration drift and to restrict the impact of undocumented changes in the stack
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