In this section, we will discuss the challenges in manually provisioning infrastructure, infrastructure as code, building and deploying using the serverless application model, and building and deploying using the alternative options.
An overview of serverless stack build and deploy options
Manually provisioning infrastructure
The challenge of provisioning infrastructure is that it used to be a very manual process. For example, administrators would follow the steps described in a manual by clicking items on a user interface, running a set of commands, or logging into the servers and editing configuration files. This became more and more challenging with the growth of cloud computing and web frameworks that started to scale out. This...