Three Infrastructure Paradigms: From Code to Cloud

The blurring line between application code and infrastructure has spawned three competing visions for the future of cloud provisioning. Infrastructure as Code gives total control but demands hundreds of lines of verbose declarations; Framework-defined Infrastructure strips away boilerplate by letting frameworks automatically infer infrastructure needs, yet restricts you to the platform's capabilities; Infrastructure as Framework enables frameworks to generate deployable infrastructure code you own. These paradigms represent a fundamental reckoning: as applications implicitly define their infrastructure, who should do the work of stating it explicitly—you or the framework?