Category: Infrastructure as Code

DevOps - Infrastructure as Code - Productivity

Success story: Automating 100 of applications on the corporate world

The client Genesys, a  large company providing a wide variety of contact center solutions, must support a wide variety of product features. The ongoing product offerings required on-premise installation of a great number of moving parts. Such installation would involve a hundred applications and their dependencies, installed on four major operating system versions in various…

CI/CD - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code - Productivity

Continuous Delivery Pipelines for Infrastructure Code

Pipelines are not for application code only. Continuous Delivery matters. In modern application and infrastructure management, programmers and sysadmins not only work purely in application code but also in terms of infrastructure code. The latter includes all the code that deploys the essentials needed to run your application: cloud resources (ie. instances, DBs), operating system…

Infrastructure as Code - Productivity

Immutable Infrastructure approaches

When you have C code, you compile it once, and then copy it to different servers. This way you know the same object is running everywhere. The same happens when you combine Infrastructure as Code and Immutable Infrastructure. Infrastructure as Code is one of the core concepts of the modern server management. You define in…

Automation - Infrastructure as Code - Terraform

Moving to Terraform

Recently a development company approached us to help them with a Site running on AWS WebServices. This site in particular, is on a very popular CMS, using a LAMP stack together with RDS and ElasticCache, traffic varies quite a lot, specially when transmitting live events. Challenge and First Steps Our first challenge was to move…

CI/CD - Infrastructure as Code - Security & Compliance

Compliance and Infrastructure Delivery

As a nearshore team, we work with clients from outside the US which have some data access restrictions. One of our clients is a US based Software Development agency that hired us for IT operations. This company develops products for health insurance companies that add some clauses to the contracts which don’t allow the management…