Modern Cloud Infrastructures require automation and call for Infrastructure as Code. But mastering Infrastructure as Code is complex. Here's why a CI/CD can help

1. Continuous Infrastructure Automation & Optimization

2. ▪ A recent evolution to cloud native architectures (microservices and orchestration) in a
growing multi cloud context, clearly makes cloud infrastructures ever more complex.
Modern Cloud infrastructures require automation
For DevOps teams, the only way to face this
complexity is automation.
Orchestrated
containerized architecture
Traditional
architecture
Containerized
achitecture
Multicloud environment
(one specific managed Kubernetes
implementation per cloud provider)

3. Cloud infrastructures automation calls for
Infrastructure as Code.
▪ Infrastructure as Code is an evolution from manual resources provisioning, enabling the
programmatic description of the underlying resources needed to run application code. It is the
very first step towards automation.
▪ Its main benefits are :
▪ Speed and simplicity,
▪ Risk minimization,
▪ Secure process and consistency,
▪ Repeatability of deployments,
▪ Portability across clouds.

4. But mastering Infrastructure as Code is complex.
▪ Steep learning curve and scarce resources.
▪ High sensitivity to security and human errors.
▪ Mistakes yield drastic consequences on production
▪ Senior DevOps have a hard time managing roles and permissions within their team.
▪ Maintaining the high level of code quality needed to avoid production issues is hard.
No one tool covers the
« Continuous Infrastructure
Automation » pipeline end-to-end
Average number of tools to build
an infrastructure pipeline! (Gartner)
Still, there a need to automate the IaC workflow
(as achieved on application code with
CI/CD like Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis).

5. CloudSkiff is a CI/CD designed for Infrastructure as
Code with an integrated launchpad.
▪ Day 1 : CloudSkiff is a launchpad with ready-to-use templates to get started and an importer to quickly
intake your existing infrastructure not yet described as code.
▪ Day 2+ : CloudSkiff streamlines Infrastructure as Code workflows from definition to testing and
deployment. DevOps teams get a unified, versioned traceable view into templates and deployments from
a clean dashboard.
▪ Role Based Access Control allow senior DevOps to grant some degree of autonomy to Dev team
members.
▪ By securing this process, CloudSkiff
also lowers the cloud provider lock-in"

6. Now available in Beta.
Give it a try!
• Sign up on app.cloudskiff.com
• Get help and documentation
on help.cloudskiff.com
• Here's how you can get a new EKS
Cluster running and its Terraform code in
minutes.
Currently available on AWS and GCP
Azure support in March
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