Day Two Cloud 151: How To Tell If Infrastructure As Code Is Working For You

Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Today’s episode gets into Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and how to evaluate it so that IaC practices fit your organization, your processes, the infrastructure you’re trying to support, and so on. Our guest lays out some guideposts to help you understand if IaC is working for you. That guest is George Richardson, a consultant at Scale Factory. This episode was inspired by a post George wrote called “How Infrastructure as Code Should Feel.” Do your IaC practices make changes feel safe? Is your infrastructure stable? Is your code understandable? Does IaC make you fast? George discusses how these guideposts can help you evaluate how to make sure IaC works for you. Sponsor: StrongDM StrongDM is secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. StrongDM proxies connections between your infrastructure and Sysadmins, giving your IT team auditable, policy-driven, IaC-configurable access to whatever they need, wherever they are. Find out more at StrongDM.com/packetpushers. Sponsor: ITProTV Start or grow your IT career with online training from ITProTV. From CompTIA to Cisco and Microsoft, ITProTV offers more than 5,800 hours of on-demand training. Courses are listed by category, certification, and job role. Day Two Cloud listeners can sign up and save 30% off all plans. Go to itpro.tv/daytwocloud and use promo code CLOUD to save 30%. Show Links: How Infrastructure As Code Should Feel – Scale Factory George Richardson’s Blog George Richardson on GitHub George Richardson on LinkedIn