iac The 3 Phases of Infrastructure Automation

[Hashicorp]

Traditional on-premises data centers aren’t going anywhere, but the workflows that once dominated them are quickly becoming obsolete. Before Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms emerged to compete with datacenters, organizations were accustomed to a static infrastructure. Resources were typically provisioned once, held long-term, and were the domain of a central IT team that controlled them using a ticketing workflow.

Times have changed. Now, organizations deploy their data and applications to the cloud, harnessing the power of on-demand resourcing. But provisioning and maintaining infrastructure in a multi-cloud environment — each with its own workflow — brings a new set of challenges, from managing disparate workflows and infrastructure sprawl to coping with teams separated into silos and gaps in critical skills. With that in mind, adoption of infrastructure automation usually comes in three distinct phases:

1. Adopting and establishing a provisioning workflow
2. Standardizing the workflow
3. Operating and optimizing at scale

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