Implementing Infrastructure as Code with Kief Morris

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) brings tools and practices from agile software engineering to ensure that infrastructure can be continuously evolved with a rigorous focus on quality. This is possible because infrastructure has become abstracted from physical hardware, meaning it can be treated like a software system. Version control systems, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) can now be applied to the realm of infrastructure.

The talk walks through a number of patterns for implementing IaC tools such as AWS, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform, to build a change management pipeline to automatically test and apply configuration to infrastructure. The patterns are not tool-specific, so should be useful for any team using these types of tools.

About Kief:
Kief is Principal Cloud Technologist with ThoughtWorks and author of Infrastructure as Code, published by O'Reilly.
Kief enjoys helping organisations adopt cloud age technologies and practices. This usually involves buzzwords like cloud, digital platforms, infrastructure automation, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery.
Originally from Tennessee, Kief has been been building teams to deliver software as a service in London since the dotcom days.