Open Source Infrastructure (as Code) Discussions

[brettcurtis]

Open Source Infrastructure (as Code) is a development model for infrastructure that focuses on open collaboration and applying relative lessons learned from software development practices that organizations can use internally at scale.

Infrastructure is the set of systems and underlying resources that serve an organization and encompasses the services necessary for its teams and applications to function.

The term "as code," means applying the relative lessons learned in the software world to infrastructure. Some critical practices include source control and clean code for readability, changeability, extensibility, and maintainability, along with automated testing and continuous delivery.

Currently, we are working on a landing zone consisting of a few core coverage areas, resource hierarchy, identity, access, and audit logging on Google Cloud Platform with continuous delivery enablement using GitHub.

We are building these platforms to align with key concepts and core ideas from Team Topologies and from what we are branding as Open Source Infrastructure as Code.