The Challenge
Why Infrastructure Deployments Vary
Infrastructure built by hand differs every time, takes too long and is hard to audit.
Is This Relevant?
Is This Use Case Relevant to Your Organization?
The people, moments and signals that usually bring this need to the surface.
Relevant Teams
- Platform and infrastructure teams
- Engineering teams
- Security and audit
Common Triggers
- Rapid growth in environments
- Change control audit findings
- Cloud adoption
Warning Signs
- Environments built from checklists
- Differences between test and production
- Slow requests for new environments
Typical Environments
- Public cloud, private cloud and on-premises
- Servers, networks, databases and containers
Benefits
What Better Looks Like
Intended benefits. Actual results depend on your environment and starting point.
Our Approach
A Practical Approach
Codify one environment first, then reuse the patterns. Each stage is tailored to your environment.
Assess
Review environments, provisioning steps, tools and change processes.
Prioritize
Rank what you find by business impact, effort and risk, and agree where to start.
Design
Agree module structure, standards and the review workflow.
Implement
Write templates, automate provisioning and configuration.
Validate and Optimize
Rebuild environments from code and compare results.
Solutions
Solutions That Can Help
The solutions that address this use case, starting with the primary one.
Services
How Signisys Can Support You
The services that deliver the approach, from the first assessment to ongoing improvement.
Technology
Technology Options
Where technology fits in the approach. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed for each engagement.
Before You Start
What to Consider Before Getting Started
A little preparation makes the first assessment faster and its findings more reliable.
- Tools and platforms in use
- Existing environments to bring under code
- Review and approval process
- Team skills
- Who will own the work and act on recommendations
- Engagement model and ongoing support
Measuring Success
How to Measure Success
Illustrative measures. Agree a baseline first, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Provisioning Time
Time to deploy a new environment.
Infrastructure in Code
The share of infrastructure defined in code.
Configuration Drift
Differences found from the definition.
Failed Changes
Infrastructure changes causing incidents.
Our Approach
How We Deliver Results
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this use case.
What is infrastructure as code?
Defining servers, networks and services in versioned files, so they can be deployed automatically and the same way every time.
Do we need to rebuild existing environments?
Existing environments can be imported or rebuilt gradually; new environments start in code straight away.
What information is needed to get started?
Your platforms, how environments are built today, change processes and the tools your teams know.
Which environments does this apply to?
Public cloud, private cloud and on-premises, including servers, networks, databases and containers.
How is progress measured?
Agree a baseline for measures such as provisioning time, infrastructure in code, configuration drift and failed changes, then track them over time.
Related Content
Related Outcomes, Use Cases and Guides
Where to go next: the outcome this use case supports, nearby scenarios, technology partners and practical guides.
Business Outcome
Modernize IT Infrastructure and Applications
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