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Things were quite simple in the old days. Proactively monitoring applications or infrastructure was not the norm. If there was a failure, a user would pick up the phone to inform the help-desk that the app is broken.
Troubleshooting was all reactive and the only path to resolution was for someone to roll up their sleeves and go in and look at log files and manually fix errors by themselves.
It is an age-old dilemma that awaits me every time I walk into the chip shop. Should I go for the fried-to-order fish? Or the baked and ready-to-eat meat pie? A similar question can arise in the context of how to build infrastructure.
"Frying" infrastructure on-demand is the default approach to building infrastructure. Pick up an IaC tool or two and program it to carry out the same steps as you would follow while doing a manual installation.