Self-service IaC foundation.
At Nordcloud, we’ve created a set of tools and processes which augment and embed into Terraform and AWS tooling and capabilities.
We’ve broken down our IaC foundation offering into the following modular building blocks:
IaC layering and state share
- Definition of infrastructure responsibility split between workloads and environments and its implementation in Terraform Cloud
- Definition of state sharing concept
Workflows and permissions
- Design of teams structure and related permissions
- ● Design of GitOps based workflow model to provision infrastructure
- Design of policy application, ownership and provisioning
- Design of required run tasks (hooks) in Terraform Cloud
- Design of private module registry usage and associated VCS configurations
- Design of secrets storage and access
Module and policy library
- Implementation of IaC modules with cloud agnostic interfaces
- Implementation of policies according to client requirements
Migration
- VCS/TF Workspace setup according to concepts
- State import & verification for workloads and environments
- Documentation for & enablement of impacted teams
Enablement
- Creation of training material and documentation for established platform
- Training sessions for impacted teams
- Enablement of app factories and migration factories
We also offer managed cloud services and platform support to enhance and maintain IaC modules and policies, continuously enable new teams, and troubleshoot Terraform.
Enhancement and management
- Continuous enhancement of IaC modules and policy rules according to evolving requirements
- Continuous enablement sessions for new workloads or teams
- Management and troubleshooting of Terraform Cloud
- Detailed cost chargeback reporting
- Easy procurement through AWS Marketplace
What do you need help with?
Self-service capabilities
Organisations want to use open source tools where possible and empower the infrastructure self-service capabilities for their IT product teams. This will allow them to cut down ticket numbers and improve IT product team agility.
Accelerating implementation
Providing IT product teams with ready-made IaC patterns speeds up implementation time while enforcing security, compliance and company-elected policies.
Filling skills gaps
Many businesses struggle hiring enough platform or DevOps engineers to adequately support infrastructure automation across all their IT product teams.
Removing legacy debt
IT product teams tasked with automating infrastructure provisioning tend to build one-off, custom solutions which incrementally become outdated, unwanted or redundant, and become inflexible maintenance liabilities over time. This effect is worsened by the skill shortages mentioned above.
Eliminating security risks
These one-off, custom solutions mentioned above typically accumulate security issues such as excessive credential sharing or lack of identity-based access controls.
Benefits of the IaC foundation
Increase speed
We accelerate migrations and cloud-native development with reusable infrastructure modules, meaning your teams can develop and innovate faster.
Reduce governance complexity
We address infrastructure provisioning end-to-end, from organising workflows for platform and application teams to implementing security, governance and reusability.
Reduce manual work
Take back control of infrastructure provisioning in an automated way, improving developer experience and productivity and freeing up their time for valuable tasks.
Why Nordcloud?
Faster results
As 100% cloud natives, we have a proven track record helping teams evolve from legacy technologies and practices. You get better, faster, more sustainable results because you have cloud natives guiding your journey.
Cloud-native tooling
We only build tools that can work within the cloud native ecosystem and sit well within cloud native deployments. As our tools are cloud native and are embedded, they can autoscale to support your environment as it scales up and down.
We use and improve our tools
All of our automation tools are built into existing cloud journeys and are used as the foundation to run our business. We maintain the highest quality level through continuous improvement
AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace provides a clear and easy route to get you the Hashicorp Tools that you require: find the Hashicorp tooling you need in AWS Marketplace to help you discover, procure, provision, and govern your applications, allowing you to offload infrastructure management and focus on what matters most, scaling and securing your business.
Consulting Partner Private Offer
Nordcloud is an AWS Marketplace CPPO partner: this means you can work with Nordcloud to procure 3rd party software, like Hashicorp, through the AWS Marketplace Private Offers. This will greatly reduce your time to procurement as billing for the software will be done via your AWS account which gives you full insight into your AWS related costs. Also, your Marketplace purchase will decrement your outstanding AWS commitment if you have committed to AWS on a spend level.