Im sorry to say that, but Infrastructure is everywhere; no matter if you are using k8s, GCP, AWS, or any other offering… you need to describe the infrastructure requirements your application needs to run… with code? Are we really using code, or are we back to configuration management? Should we?
We will be reviewing how we have been interacting with Cloud Providers in the last 10 years, using scripting, actual code, and configuration files. Code snippets will be supporting us in this time travel, while we will be blaming the Twelve-Factor App methodology (and ourselves?) given we ended up messing with templates… Some newer alternatives will be presented (Terrascript and Pulumi), including also the patterns we are applying in k8s (Helm, Kustomize and others), sharing finally some thoughts about the convenience of changing (or not?) the model.

Takeaways

• Audience should be able to position different IaC models and complexities behind cloud deployments
• We should acknowledge limitations and issues generated by describing infrastructure configuration with declarative languages, getting a clear idea of the pros and cons of each approach
• The audience should leave the session with interest in playing with the new models and tools we will be presenting (mostly Pulumi), with the guidance also to the examples we will be providing, as well as having a better view of what the future of IaC may consist of.