Common issues with infrastructure as code
If you’re migrating to AWS for the first time, IaC might not be your top priority. Typically, organisations initially focus on replicating, as much as possible, their on-premises environment in the cloud. Optimisation and modernisation come later.
After a migration is complete, though, we often see customers start to implement IaC without the proper knowledge and processes in place. Maybe only a single person or a small team takes the lead on AWS cloud development, and skills aren’t spread across the organisation. This means that some departments might not see the benefits of infrastructure as code, with some still manually provisioning resources. And if a key member of the IaC team leaves the company, the whole modernisation initiative could suffer.
Another common problem is that a company might apply infrastructure as code to new environments, but continue to manually manage legacy systems. Or a business might fail to make code reusable across the organisation. Either way, the result is inefficiency that fails to optimise the use of IaC, which limits the benefits an organisation can experience.
These problems quickly become obvious to tech teams that understand the value of infrastructure as code but lack the staff, time or management support to do things correctly. That’s where SoftwareOne can step in and help turn things around.