Infrastructure comprises the physical, virtual, software-defined, and supporting technical resources required to host, connect, operate, secure, and manage systems, applications, and services.
Infrastructure includes resources such as:
Infrastructure differs from an Infrastructure Resource:
Infrastructure also differs from an Infrastructure Environment:
Infrastructure can exist as:
The governing architecture determines which resources and supporting capabilities form the Infrastructure for a particular system or environment.
collective physical, virtual, software-defined, and supporting technical resources used to host, connect, operate, secure, and manage systems, applications, or services
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Infrastructure does not include the business functions, mission objectives, or application-specific behavior that the Infrastructure supports.
Infrastructure does not require a particular:
A specification should use the more precise term Infrastructure Resource when referring to an individually identifiable resource.
A specification should use Infrastructure Environment when referring to an operationally organized collection of Infrastructure Resources, configurations, relationships, and controls.
The Infrastructure for a deployed service consists of compute nodes, network segments, encrypted storage, an operating system, a container runtime, identity services, monitoring services, and supporting management components.
A Declarative Configuration defines the Infrastructure required for the service without prescribing the procedural sequence used to create it.
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