Topic: iac
Report: The challenges of Infrastructure as Code
Usage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is prevalent, but like with any technology, the pros aren’t without cons. IaC has the potential to improve reliability, security, and development velocity, but in reality, developers are running into some issues using this practice. Insights into some of these challenges were revealed in new research called Stacked Up: … continue reading
AWS Console-to-Code jump starts infrastructure automation
AWS has released a new solution designed to make it easier to get started with infrastructure automation. AWS Console-to-Code allows users to record the console actions they are performing and have those actions converted to code for later use. Code can be generated in several different infrastructure-as-code (IaC) formats, like an AWS CloudFormation template (YAML … continue reading
Pulumi ESC now generally available, Insights 2.0 released
The infrastructure as code company Pulumi has announced the general availability of Pulumi ESC and the release of Pulumi Insights 2.0 during its annual user conference, PulumiUP. Pulumi ESC, which stands for environments, secrets, and configuration, is a centralized secrets management platform. In this GA release, the company has added a new projects system that … continue reading
Platform Engineering has a Problem – It’s Infrastructure-as-Code
In the context of cloud operations, the last decade was ruled by DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code. But what is true DevOps? Is it developers running their own operations? Is it a different job role, where operators learn development skills to automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform? Now that DevOps is widely understood in … continue reading
It’s time to embrace Monitoring-as-Code
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has revolutionized the management and provisioning of everything from local virtual machines to exotic AWS services. It is time for Monitoring-as-Code (MaC) to do the same in the application performance monitoring (APM) and synthetic monitoring fields — and the good news is that everyone stands to benefit. Provisioning monitoring checks by hand is … continue reading
Infrastructure as Code: The case for continuous delivery
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 … continue reading
AWS CloudFormation introduces the ability to disable automatic rollback
A new update in AWS CloudFormation enables users to quickly retry stack operations from the point of failure. CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that offers users an easy way to model a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, provision them quickly and consistently, and manage them throughout their life cycles. Previously, … continue reading
5 tips for securely adopting infrastructure as code
Infrastructure as code (IaC) allows us to design, build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure in code, rather than clicking through a cloud provider’s UI or having a long list of CLI commands. IaC—especially declarative IaC—simplifies the process of configuring a resource by defining the end state of what you want to be created and the … continue reading
Terraform reaches maturity and stability with 1.0 release
HashiCorp has announced a milestone release of its open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) software tool. Terraform 1.0 has been 10 years in the making and is a huge leap forward for the project in terms of interoperability, ease of updates and maintenance of automation workflows, the team explained. When the idea of Terraform was first … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Infracost
Infracost is an open-source cloud cost estimator designed to help DevOps, SREs and developers estimate the cost of Infrastructure as Code projects. It can be integrated into a CI/CD pipeline to see what impact a change to a business’ infrastructure can do. Infracost currently supports 100 AWS and Google resources, but the team has been … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Terrascan
Terrascan is an open-source static code analyzer for building secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The project was launched by the immutable security company Accurics last year. It includes templates to help avoid common security pitfalls in the cloud, built-in extensibility to support other technologies, and leverages the Open Policy Agent to help users write custom … continue reading
Pulumi aims to go beyond infrastructure as code in latest release
Modern infrastructure as code company Pulumi has announced Pulumi 2.0 with new capabilities and improvements. “Pulumi is a modern infrastructure as code tool that lets you declare infrastructure using real languages, with a SaaS management console for configuring identities, organizations, and related policies. By using real languages, developers and operators are able to work better … continue reading
