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CloudBolt Industry Insights Report:
The Truth About DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud Journey
The Roadmap to Better CI/CD
When asked about key ways to improve CI/CD pipeline reliability, respondents gave clear
direction:
• Make provisioning infrastructure faster through automated processes (70%)
• Continuously detect infrastructure issues to reduce testing challenges & failures (62%)
• Simplify remediation of infrastructure issues proactively (56%)
It is only through creating better speed, awareness, and repairs that CI/CD can finally live up
to its promise.
First conceived more than 25 years ago, IaC is not a new concept. At its heart, it is designed to
enable the modeling of infrastructure with code, empowering developers to design,
implement, and deploy application infrastructure with known software best practices. The
ability to treat infrastructure like code and use the same tools as any other software project
ostensibly allows developers to rapidly deploy applications.
An emerging vendor in IaC is HashiCorp's Terraform, which was introduced in 2015 and has
rapidly grown a base of ardent users.
Terraform's co-founder and CTO recently called one of their releases "a milestone…designed
to deliver stability, scalability, and interoperability." He then asserted that "Terraform has
emerged as the 'lingua franca' for infrastructure."
While an interesting and thought-provoking statement, CII data uncovered a different story
regarding Terraform in the context of hybrid cloud infrastructure management.
IaC/Terraform:
Still Struggling to Reach Full Potential
