Managing infrastructure is a process which is associated with software engineering. Enterprises usually have racks hardware; they used to install OS and configure application on top of it to fulfill their technology requirements. With the involvement of Cloud technologies, the on-demand provisioning of VMs, networking, and storing components becomes a lot more easier.
The only problem here is that the provisioning of such infrastructures is done manually by infrastructure managers or DevOps guys, and the manual processes have certain disadvantages, which are mentioned as follows:
- The manual process requires more human capital, which forces a company to endure higher cost to meet important business needs.
- Humans are error prone, which makes inconsistency in infrastructure provisioning, leading to deviations from configuration standards.
- Manual process are slow, which...