Application development has undergone drastic changes in the past few years, driven by the demand for ever-increasing performance, scale, and resiliency. Single-server and multi-server deployment models that require manual configuration and endless hours of routine drudgery are frowned upon. Today, applications are increasingly deployed on clusters of dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of containers and virtual machines. This shift requires enormous cooperation between development, operations, and traditional IT management teams. This new cooperative approach to infrastructure management led to the creation of “ Infrastructure as Code” – an approach where servers, networks, firewalls, and services are abstracted to software and data. Infrastructure-as-code methodology utilizes software development best practices, such as version control systems and automated testing libraries, to build simple, easy, and repeatable, human-readable infrastructure configurations. Thanks to these tools, you can manage complete application environments–including servers, networks, firewalls, and services–more efficient than ever before. As you’ll see throughout the new O’ Reilly ebook, Infrastructure as Code, by Kief Morris, Cloud Specialist at Thought Works, the benefits of this modern infrastructure management model appeal to application developers, system administrators, and IT management alike. The benefits of Infrastructure as Code include trail audits and change visibility, as well as savings in cost and time. Application owners and other administrations now have full visibility into infrastructure modifications because changes are submitted and processed via commits. Significant cost reductions result because servers and services are provisioned only when they are actively needed for application usage, and significant time is saved by eliminating manual provisioning and management.
Data Center Infrastructure Management ( DCIM) software is quickly becoming the core engine of data center operations. Only 5 years ago, manual spreadsheets, sometimes supplemented with Visio diagrams, were accepted as the default tools for data center management. But the arrival of powerful, yet easy-to-use DCIM solutions has resulted in a 40% CAGR growth in DCIM adoption (sales) with annual revenue now close to half a Billion Dollars. Since the IT function is so vital to the success of any modern organization, improving productivity, efficiency and reliability of data center operations deliver an immediate competitive advantage to DCIM adopters. This e-book will offer some facts about why this is so and, if not already the case, why DCIM is clearly in your future.
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