Automation

Infrastructure setup can be a very time-consuming job; developers would remain idle while the infrastructure is being readied for them. They will take some time before joining the team and contributing. The process of infrastructure setup should not stop a developer from becoming productive, as it would reduce overall productivity. This should be an automated process. With the use of Chef or PowerShell, we can easily create our virtual machines and quickly ramp up the developer count as and when required. This way, our developer can be ready to start the work on day one of joining the team.

Chef is a DevOps tool that provides a framework to automate and manage your infrastructure.

PowerShell can be used to create our Azure machines and to set up TFS.