Standardize Infrastructure as Code for Consistent Cloud Management

CHALLENGE

How to build and share standards across different teams

Using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for cloud infrastructures is a multidimensional journey where (especially for Enterprise workload) you need to think about day 2 operations before even you start building your infrastructure. This is because sometimes the cost of changing is higher and riskier than keeping the actual messy processes that are in place.

One of the challenges with using IaC like Terraform / OpenTofu, is how to build standards for your processes and conventions in a way that is easy to share. The other challenge is how to make sure they are used consistently.

What most organizations fail to realize is that standardization is not a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have:

Troubleshooting becomes harder for engineers as there are different ways of accomplishing the same goal. This means that they need to know the exact implications of the configurations, so finding the root cause during an incident takes more time.
Velocity is also directly impacted by a lack of standardization because engineers or teams may use non-optimized approaches to build the cloud infrastructure.
The cost of maintenance: This is one of the most frustrating points for engineers, as every change requires them to understand every different way to be able to confidently introduce any change to their infrastructure.

Without even talking about the security implications, as there is no optimized & standardized way of building and managing cloud infrastructures. Not to mention, that in this situation, there is no feedback loop to benefit from to fix all the security issues continuously.

SOLUTION

Capture the maturity of your cloud journey in a purpose-built platform

Brainboard helps you build, optimize, manage, and maintain your standards in the most efficient way. You can easily share these among different teams and onboard everyone to be compliant with your strategy.

How you can do it?

Naming conventions: Brainboard allows you to build naming convention strategies and apply them to a specific project(s) or across the entire organization.
Variabilization: You control approved configurations (SKUs, sizes, ranges…) and can easily move them up and down as you need to introduce more standards or manage exceptions. Maintain full control of who is allowed to change which variable(s).
Terraform / OpenTofu modules: “Batteries included but swappable” You chose the level of abstraction you want to provide to your users. Either explicitly with vanilla Terraform resources or with an abstraction through modules.
Templates: This is a great way to easily build repeatable patterns. You can clone a template on the Brainboard UI or using the API (if you use ServiceNow for e.g.) and Brainboard will automatically apply it to the right project and environment. It will then populate the right variables and deploy it. It’s predictable, repeatable, and controllable.
RBAC: To keep your standards clean, you can restrict access to who can do what (changing variables, modules, templates…).

With Brainboard, you have the power of an end-to-end solution to create and maintain your standards easily. It’s designed to lower the learning curve for teams, and facilitate the adoption of IaC, while allowing you to keep control of every aspect of the process.

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