Understanding immutable infrastructure patterns: when servers become disposable

Why your servers should die after every deployment How many times have you logged into production to "quickly fix" something, only to create a snowflake server that behaves differently than everything else? If this sounds familiar, you're dealing with configuration drift, and immutable infrastructure might be the solution you need. Immutable infrastructure follows one simple rule: never modify a server after deployment. Instead of patching existing systems, you build entirely new servers with yo