Infrastructure management
Gartner defines IT infrastructure this way:
Infrastructure management can be broken down into three key stages: capacity planning, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment, as can be seen in the following diagram:
Figure 2.12 – Infrastructure management stages
The first stage in infrastructure management is capacity planning, which will be covered next.
Capacity planning
Capacity planning is the first step in infrastructure management and is followed by provisioning and deployment. Several tools can help with collecting the data needed to accurately plan resources as collecting accurate data is crucial to do so. Tools used during capacity planning are Splunk, the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Stack, and New Relic. Continuous capacity planning...