The adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has grown rapidly over the past few years. Previously, IT teams had to constantly provision cloud resources to run applications efficiently, being mindful of over-provisioning and wasting resources. This manual approach was a relic of the pre-Cloud era that mimicked in-house data center provisioning, and doesn’t match the speed or fluidity of how applications are developed and delivered today. As a result, many teams experienced slowed deployments, and in some cases, introduced human errors and convoluted audit trails into their application development and delivery process.
As time progressed and more teams embraced DevOps, the idea of strict centralized management of cloud infrastructure seemed to move further and further from reach. If IT is a bottleneck, application teams work around them, instead of working with them. DevOps is an important shift, as it breaks down organizational silos and accelerates innovation. With the rise of DevOps, together with the need for agile infrastructure management, solutions like Kubernetes, Terraform, and CloudFormation have emerged and transformed the way applications and infrastructure are delivered. These tools allow the application teams and IT teams to work together to programmatically provision the infrastructure necessary to run applications, as well as automate application deployments in a transparent and repeatable way that aligns closely with modern cloud native software development practices.
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/Service Ventures Team
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