The architecture of the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tooling you use will determine the level to which your IaC definitions are exposed to bit rot.
This is a maxim I have arrived at after working with multiple IaC tool sets, both professionally and personally, over the last few years. In this blog post, I will explain how I arrived at this maxim by describing three architectural patterns for IaC tools, each with differing levels of risk for bit rot.
