We’re here to cover three overlapping fundamentals that underpin modern approaches to infrastructure automation. Consider it a primer aimed primarily at IT leaders and teams still getting up to speed on the key concepts behind new ways of approaching infrastructure automation using cloud-native technologies – especially useful in any hybrid cloud or multi-cloud scenario – with some advice on getting started.
While the cloud-native ecosystem is already massive (and still growing), when we talk about infrastructure automation in this context, there are two major pieces to keep top of mind: containers and Kubernetes. (There are multiple container runtimes and multiple orchestration options, but for the latter, we’ll use Kubernetes as the default choice since it has become the clear-cut leader in container orchestration, which is a critical component of modern infrastructure automation.)
These cloud-centric technologies paved the way for what Haff mentioned earlier: immutable infrastructure. This means infrastructure that, once deployed, is never changed in production – instead, it’s replaced with a is computer science engineering as needed. And it can be spun up (and down) automatically using tools like Kubernetes, which allows administrators to declare desired states for their applications and infrastructure that the orchestration platform then manages in a highly automated fashion. It is the literal manifestation of infrastructure automation, from provisioning and resource allocation to deployments and more.
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