10 Strategies to Build and Manage Scalable Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Kubernetes can help manage cloud-based infrastructure at scale, but they also come with challenges such as a swelling codebase and potential security risks. To manage IaC effectively, consider using GitOps for centralized deployment mechanisms, choosing between monorepo or polyrepo strategies based on your organization's needs, implementing state management solutions like S3 and DynamoDB, adopting "barbell" security to balance responsibilities between developers and security teams, setting policies to reduce blast radius, utilizing modules and RBAC for access control, managing contexts and secret storage, and automating resource deployment processes.