Infrastructure as Code in India: Replacing Manual Server Setup

When you have just one or two servers, it can work properly manually. But with the growing business, it becomes hard to manage everything manually. If the person who knows about the setup leaves, the team will struggle to rebuild everything again. Infrastructure as code in India will help you solve this problem by letting teams explain their server settings in code and use them again if needed.

What the research says

According to Everest Group, in an August 2016 press release. This report states that almost 70% of enterprises do not have good processes for developers to set up IT infrastructure on their own. It also said that more than 70% lacked infrastructure designed for Agile and DevOps. This shows that many companies still behave like code with infrastructure as basic automation.

There are some points to remember: these numbers are from 2016. It shows nothing about India and does not have details about the sample or research method. So this is proof that this is a very long-standing problem, but this is not enough to tell about the common problems in India today.

Infrastructure as Code in India: What Changes

This is our view: infrastructure offers four benefits:

1. Same Setup Every Time: Code helps you build servers with the same details every time. It reduces differences between testing and live environments.
2. Easier Reviews: Teams are able to make changes or review them easily before applying them. It is also trackable to check who made the change and why.
3. Faster Recovery: If a server fails, the team can use the saved code to rebuild it instead of checking old notes or relying on memory.
4. Faster Setup: Teams can create testing environments faster, without waiting days for manual setup and approvals.

So, the team has to follow the process. If anyone makes changes to a server manually without code updates, both will stop matching.

What to ask before you move off manual setup

Ask these questions before moving away from the manual work. This will help you with a testing environment, this is the place where you can fix mistakes.

• Which servers are still set up manually?
• Are the setup steps written down?
• Where will the code be stored?
• Who will review and approve changes?
• How will we prevent untracked manual changes?
• Which environment should we start with? 

How We Approach Infrastructure as Code in India

Cloud infrastructure management using infrastructure as code is one of our DevOps services. We help you with server settings, networks, and other infrastructure in code. This makes rebuilding environment easy and review changes better. We suggest you start with one environment and one team, which you can expand later if the process works well. For infrastructure as code in India, we start by finding which systems are still set up manually. After this, we help the team move forward with a more consistent and repeatable process.

If your team wants to replace manual server setup, we’d be happy to discuss your needs and help you get started.