The future of AWS’ cloud: Infrastructure as an application
June 2, 2016
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Thomas Rectenwald.
Infrastructure as code has defined the last five years of systems engineering, and will likely define the next five. But as we became better and better at manipulating infrastructure with declarative languages, we started to look beyond JSON to find more full-fledged, dynamic programming languages to create and configure cloud resources. In many ways, this movement is mimicking the evolution of web development as web ‘sites’ became web ‘applications’; in a few years, systems engineers will be coding infrastructure applications, not hard-coding declarative templates.
What is CloudFormation?
Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure as code (IaC) offering, CloudFormation, enables engineers to manage infrastructure through the use of declarative templates, utilising the data format language, JSON. The value of this approach is tremendous. Templates can be checked into a source code management system, linted and validated using tools and IDEs…
Entire environments can be quickly duplicated, modified and deployed in quick time to keep pace with the rapid change ever present in today’s IT world…
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