The contemporary enterprise landscape is increasingly defined by the convergence of multi-cloud adoption, DevOps-driven operational models, and the formalization of infrastructure management through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). While the technical promise of multi-cloud strategies lies in flexibility, vendor independence, and optimized workload placement, the organizational reality of managing heterogeneous cloud infrastructures has produced unprecedented complexity in governance, security, networking, and operational reliability. Within this context, IaC has emerged not merely as an automation tool but as a foundational epistemology for how infrastructure is conceptualized, designed, verified, and governed. This article develops a comprehensive and theoretically grounded investigation of how IaC best practices, particularly in enterprise-scale multi-cloud deployments, can be understood as a socio-technical system that aligns technological architecture with organizational control, risk management, and continuous delivery imperatives. Anchored in the framework articulated by Dasari (2025), this study situates IaC as the central mechanism through which multi-cloud infrastructures become reproducible, auditable, and strategically governable.

Infrastructure-as-Code, Multi-Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Cloud Governance

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