Beyond Infrastructure as Code

Talk Description

The way we managed infrastructure is always getting better, Terraform revolutionised the space with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts, then tools like Pulumi and CDK have allowed us to push IaC further by using general purpose programming languages rather than a DSL.

And while this is better than click-ops, these approaches introduce a new challenge, the duel mastery problem. You now need to know both the cloud/infra you need to provision, and the IaC tool to provision that infrastructure. What if I told you there was a better way.

The team at System Initiative (formerly creator of Chef and engineers from Hashicorp/Pulumi) are building a system where you work directly with a digital twin diagram of your infrastructure, then can review and apply those changes just as you would with IaC. Not only that, it is more flexible and easier to extend than the existing tools out there. Come see what the future of infrastructure maintenance could look like!

Knowledge Level

Level 200: Experienced. Attendees should have an awareness of the topic but may not have practical experience.