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Immutable infrastructure

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, immutable infrastructure means: An approach where deployed infrastructure instances are replaced with new versions rather than changed in place.

In Turkish: değiştirilemez altyapı

How it is used

Used for repeatable deployments. Application data still needs an explicit storage and migration strategy.

Example sentences

  1. With immutable infrastructure, we replaced the servers instead of patching them manually.

    The update arrives as a replacement instance rather than an edit to the existing one.

  2. Our immutable infrastructure keeps customer uploads in storage outside the replaceable instances.

    Separating persistent data avoids losing uploads when application instances are replaced.

Common collocations

  • adopt immutable infrastructure
  • immutable infrastructure deployment
  • infrastructure as codeManaging servers, networks and other cloud resources by writing configuration files that tools read and apply, instead of clicking through a console by hand.
  • instanceOne running copy of a virtual server or service in the cloud. You choose its size, such as how many CPUs and how much memory it has, and pay while it runs.

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