DevOps and cloud - everything is code

Let's look at the architecture of cloud computing. While discussing a cloud infrastructure, we must remember that we are talking about a large, scalable environment! The amazing switch to bigger environments requires us to simplify everything as much as possible. System architecture and software design are becoming more and more complicated. Every new release of software affords new functions and new configurations.

Administrating and deploying a large infrastructure would not be possible without adopting a new philosophy, Infrastructure as code.

When infrastructure is seen as code, the components of a given infrastructure are modeled as modules of code. What you need to do is to abstract the functionality of the infrastructure into discrete reusable components, design the services provided by the infrastructure as modules of code, and finally implement them as blocks of automation.

Furthermore, in such a paradigm, it will be essential to adhere to the same well-established discipline of software development as an infrastructure developer.

The essence of DevOps mandates that developers, network engineers, and operators must work alongside each other to deploy, operate, and maintain cloud infrastructure which will power our next-generation data center.