This document discusses the importance of infrastructure as code (IaC) through a story of a company that struggled to deploy a new application. The company took 4 weeks and 2 days to deploy the application to production due to manually configuring environments. IaC advocates treating infrastructure like code that can be version controlled, tested, and deployed automatically. The document demonstrates deploying a load balancer and servers on DigitalOcean using Terraform as the IaC tool. Benefits of IaC include reuse, automation, version control, testing, documentation, and collaboration.