A Smart Provisioning Approach to Cloud Infrastructure

A Smart Provisioning Approach to Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Computing has become the primary model to pay-per-use used by practitioners and researchers for getting an infrastructure in a short time. DevOps is a paradigm that provides practices and tools to optimize the software delivery time. On the one hand, Infrastructure as Code is the cornerstone of DevOps to infrastructure automation based on practices of software development. On the other hand, there exist tools that provide support for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management in the Cloud. Currently, companies are using Cloud-based DevOps processes to leverage the capacities of Cloud Computing and improve the software delivery time. However, infrastructure provisioning is a time-consuming and error-prone activity because it is supported by tools which work in isolation and they do not have any link between them. For this reason, we propose a smart provisioning approach of infrastructure based on models, which have configuration needed to create infrastructure, run a set of automated tests and setup automatically the DevOps tools used in this process.