Automated provisioning
The norm over the past few years has been to move from traditional tin-and-string physical servers and infrastructure to virtualized equivalents, be that on-premise, datacenter-hosted, or cloud-based. I won't dwell too much on the advantages of one over the other—again, there's plenty of rich information available should you wish to read up—but I will focus on one element that is not always front and center when planning to move to a virtualized environment solution: the ability to use automated provisioning as part of your CD and DevOps pipeline.
Provisioning is nothing new; as long as cloud providers have been a thing, they have been providing their customers with cloud-based virtualized servers that can be provisioned ...
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