Scalable infrastructure automation.
Manage your IaC with security, policy enforcement and unified workflows
Every day the volume of steps in the cloud increases. Teams need to overcome this complexity to deliver fast and get the best out of their cloud investments. With the adoption of multi-cloud, building a uniform way of managing infrastructure becomes even more complex.
As cloud-natives, we continuously improve the design of our automation solutions in a way that is customer-oriented.
We work with the best partners to build tooling and automation for customers the same way we build them for ourselves.
This means we focus on addressing the pain points of our customers, helping shorten development and release cycles, and ensuring the security and stability of AWS environments at scale.
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tasked with automating infrastructure provisioning tend to build one-off, custom solutions which incrementally become outdated, unwanted or redundant, and become inflexible maintenance liabilities over time.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.
How can we help?
We implement and manage scalable infrastructure automation - based on Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise combined with AWS capacity and services - to enable self-service, security, compliance and policy enforcement at scale.
Nordcloud builds self-service platforms as infrastructure as code and offers attached managed cloud services.
Terraform is the dominant technology to provision cloud infrastructure.
AWS offers capacity plus Proton, Service Catalog and CodePipeline capable building blocks.
How does the IaC foundation help your setup?
Overextended app teams
Many individual app teams create fragmented platforms which become unmanageable.
Overloaded platform teams
Or, platform teams and app teams collaborate via tickets, which causes friction, frustration, and slows development.
Self-service platforms
Our self-service platforms enable teams to implement and manage high-quality platforms based on proven infrastructure assets.
Why do we love working with Terraform?
In short, Terraform provides companies with one great, uniform way to automate infrastructure across multiple vendor platforms. But there’s a few other reasons why we love using it, too:
One Consistent Workflow
- One workflow to provision multi-vendor infrastructure.
- Enhanced workflow to secure, audit and govern infrastructure with encrypted variables, audit logs and policy as code.
Providers
- 200+ available providers enable a broad set of common infrastructure.
- Providers leverage infrastructure-specific APIs to preserve their unique capabilities. So, we can use best of breed features from different providers and compose them in a single logical topology.
Audit Logging
- Audit logs provide a central system of record to track all provisioned infrastructure.
Multi-Cloud Policy as Code
- Codified policies enforce security, compliance, and operational best practices across all cloud provisioning.
- Policy as code eliminates wasted time waiting for code reviews and security audits. Policies are stored in VCS and treated as code - write, test, validate, publish.
Cost Estimation
- View an estimated cost of infrastructure changes to a workspace following the Terraform plan and before provisioning.
Team Management & SSO
- Use GUI-based team management workflows and SSO to granularly enable and manage separate business units, teams and users with role-based access controls.