In the era of business transformation, enterprise cloud is very important. But after migrating to the cloud, how to manage the cloud computing infrastructure and achieve the delivery of cloud-native architecture. From the perspective of technical staff, the factors of cloud include price, infrastructure startup and running time, and application scalability. At first, you may have concerns about putting sensitive information on the cloud. Plus, there could be technical problems that teams may have to deal with.
The preparation for launching new cloud infrastructure needs carrying out capacity planning for the cloud; this is a very complex process. And when the capacity planning is completed, make a purchase plan, layout the network, etc., install software and hardware, and prepare the corresponding application building and deployment tools. There are other complexities between the test operation and the environment because of the inconsistency of the environment. For example, the developers may have to find that software has been developed, and the tester finds that it is not running well in the environment. To get past the complexities, cloud DevOps can be of much importance.
DevOps And Cloud Infrastructure Automation
The DevOps tool on the cloud provides the entire link covering DevOps right from the submission of code to the entire life process of application release, we can have a flexible choice of open-source tools and professional products. For capacity planning, because we can quickly create resources in minutes on the cloud, you do not need to think too much about how to expand capacity.
Users can define the infrastructure as code with declarative configuration files which can be applied to create, control and update infrastructure resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), networks, and containers. Companies can deploy the Terraform configuration language to efficiently automate resource management over their workflow.
The large majority of cloud development projects use DevOps, as benefits to utilising DevOps with cloud projects are also growing to be better defined and more elaborate. The centralised nature of cloud computing provides DevOps automation with a standard and centralised platform for processes like testing, deployment, and production. Previously, the distributed nature of some enterprise systems did not work well with centralised software deployment, but using a cloud platform eliminates many problems with distributed complexity.
Most public and private cloud computing platforms maintain DevOps on their platform, including continuous integration and continuous development tools. Cloud-based DevOps reduces the requirement to account for resources leveraged. Cloud leverages usage-based accounting, which tracks the usage of resources by application, developer, user, data, etc.
Features of IaaS Tools For DevOps For Cloud
There are many open-source tools and proprietary products to achieve DevOps on the cloud such as Terraform from HashiCorp as an example to manage multi-cloud infrastructure and application automation management solutions. Such tools and services form the basis to achieve the rapid delivery and maximum benefit of DevOps. A full-stack cloud platform enables a developer to sign up, connect their version control — GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab — and quickly build and deploy all of their repositories through a container file.
Using the popular tools, you can build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer to build infrastructure as code for creating virtual private cloud (VPC) clusters that decide which machines to include, what kind of network to configure, and design security rules, which require humans to operate in the traditional model and then execute them through container tools.
For example, Terraform is revolutionising DevOps by transforming the processes with which infrastructure is managed and making it quicker and more effective to administer DevOps projects. This means that your entire Cloud infrastructure can be automated in Terraform. One of these is the way Terraform handles failure. When provisioning fails, Terraform records the suspect resource and removes and re-provisions them at the following execution.
Terraform is platform-agnostic, and organisations can utilise it to maintain bare metal servers or cloud servers like Google Cloud Platform, AWS, OpenStack, and Azure. Terraform is used to manage infrastructure on multiple cloud platforms and does so based on configuration files that manage the production, changing, and destruction of all resources they include. It frees users from having to do this manually, which would be error-prone and usually irreproducible.
Utilised as part of a multi-team DevOps process, Terraform also supports teams such as operations and security to run in parallel with developers. Each component in the DevOps process has a specially designed tool, which means organisations can focus on their critical tasks without hindering other teams working on the projects. This transforms the DevOps process as teams can work in parallel. There is no need to deal with various disputes between development and test operations due to environmental consistency.
If you use a similar SaaS service such as AWS CodePipeline to design and develop new applications on PaaS using a DevOps approach for rapid rollouts. Here, you do not need to prepare application construction and deployment tools. Teams can easily derive a new environment, and quickly create these resources in minutes. In this process, they can use a tool like AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD, and for the running environment can use container services.
Companies can also choose the PaaS platform and the container service to build applications. So when the platform is ready, the code is quickly released to the cloud. At this time, the product CodePipeline can directly submit the code, then automatically build, and deploy it to ContainerService like ECS according to instructions. This CodePipeline and tools support the complete process of DevOps. When we deploy to ECS, Terraform can help generate the environment quickly.
Overview
Adopting agile development is important to pursue the deliverable value and rapid development. DevOps aims to break the barriers between development and operation. DevOps is able to accelerate all the processes and methods of receiving the final application and service delivery from the demand.
DevOps adopt an agile method, always pursue a goal, and then establish a rapid monitoring and feedback system to improve the quality of software delivery, establish a communication environment of communication and trust between various departments of the enterprise, and take the fastest delivery service application.
