Cloud Infrastructure Self Service Delivery System using Infrastructure as Code

To succeed in cloud adoption and thrive in multi-cloud environments, most organizations develop centralized platform teams. The primary function of these centralized platform teams popularly known as Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) teams is to industrialize application delivery. The platform teams which are made up of individuals who provision, run and manage shared infrastructure in cloud environments across teams, act on the requests generated by developers. This activity is time-consuming and prone to manual errors. This paper defines a system that enables developers to access platform capabilities on-demand using templates via a self-service mechanism. Application delivery in cloud environments may evolve into proven repeated patterns useful for standardizing how people function and what tools they consume and which process they follow. These standardized steps can be converted into a template made with infrastructure as Code. Using this system, the developers can launch their required resources using templates without intervention from platform teams while adhering to internal compliance of the organization. These templates built using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by the platform teams make it easy to create new resources in the cloud and release new capabilities more quickly; ensuring that desired configurations are set by Infrastructure, Network, Security, and Operations Engineers.