Journey to mature Cloud Footprint via IaC adoption for enterprises
In the journey towards maturing Cloud & DevSecOps practice enterprise wide, having matured IaC adoption is the most desired process. IaC (Infra structure as a code) is a process of provisioning and managing infrastructure using a code (YAML, Jason etc.). Having infrastructure as a code allow users to integrate infrastructure provisioning and management with CI/CD pipeline. This integration results in automated, standardised, traceable and faster provision and managing resources. In this blog we will discuss the maturity levels for IaC practice.
Picture below describes the overall IaC journey for taking an enterprise to levels of automated, efficient and optimised IaC adoption
The IaC Maturity path consists of the following high-level phases:
Phase 1 - IaC Automation –
Build standard IaC templates and configuration
Setting up centralised version control for IaC code templates such as – Master Stackset, Nested Stackset and Change set
Set up CI/CD pipeline for Infrastructure Provision/Decommission/Change resources through AWS Code Pipeline
All code, processes and runbooks documented and available
Phase 2- Infrastructure Lifecycle Automation –
Fully automated provision and validation (Testing) of development environment and automated decommission/rollback infrastructure after testing or schedule time
Infra provision/rollback/decommission or Change execution to multiple environment with validation and approval automation from Dev-Stage-Production
Bulid capability to monitor configuration changes and integrated alerting
Build capability to aggregate, trace and audit logs
Integrate end to end devsecops tools during the lifecycle
Phase 3 – Automated optimised
Build declarative programming model for infrastructure provisioning and management
Build capability for Self-healing, configurable and optimized infrastructure
Build real-time for performance testing and monitoring capability
Maximal infrastructure utilization and workload density
At Coforge we are helping our customers for achieving the highest level of maturity for Infrastructure as a Code. Coforge’s deep domain experience and proprietary framework is helping organizations jumpstart IaC maturity assessment and build a strong roadmap for enterprise wide adoption of matured IaC practices.
Hardeep Singh Manhas is a TECHNICAL CONSULTANT - CLOUD SERVICES, at Coforge Ltd. He has over 12+ years of experience working in the IT, telecom and Internet industry in various roles as a technical and business leader. He is a AWS certified Architect and Devops Professional. He is focused on helping global customers in their cloud journey with the technical and business impact of cloud computing.
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