AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is immutable infrastructure?
Immutable infrastructure: A practice of never changing servers or containers after they are deployed; to update, you build a new image and replace the old instances. It removes hidden manual changes and makes environments consistent and easy to roll back.
Immutable infrastructure: an example
Instead of logging into servers to patch them, the team builds a new image and swaps out the old machines.
Related terms
More MLOps, LLMOps cloud terms
- Infrastructure as code
- Ingress
- Integration test
- Kubeflow
- Kubernetes
- Kubernetes cluster
- Kubernetes deployment
- Kubernetes node
Where you learn it
Immutable infrastructure is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.