Key Facts

Conference: DevOpsCon Munich

Topic: Adopting a cloud strategy for a large enterprise in the automotive industry && Infrastructure as Code and AI - Does it Fit?

Location: Munich

Date: 2024-12-03 && 2024-12-04

Lecturer: Patrick Koch

Last week, I had the opportunity to give two presentations at @devops_con in Munich on #CloudAdoption and the usage of #AI tools with #InfrastructureAsCode...#MVPBuzz #HashiCorpAmbassador #Azure #Terraform
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— Patrick Koch (@PK_Koch) December 15, 2024

Description

Adopting a cloud strategy for a large enterprise in the automotive industry:

Cloud migration is a critical step for modernizing our software applications and staying competitive. This talk will share our journey, challenges, and strategic plan for adopting cloud-native technologies. Our journey began with several proof-of-concepts to migrate our existing software applications to the cloud. Last summer, we gained significant momentum by establishing a strategic partnership with Microsoft. We now need a comprehensive cloud adoption strategy. Our goal is to offer more than 50 applications as software-as-a-service (SaaS) to our customers. This involves technical transformation and developing a viable business model for our SaaS products.

We face several challenges:

• A heterogeneous software portfolio
• Multiple business units and teams
• Different technology stacks
• Lack of knowledge of operating cloud-native applications

To address these challenges, we are focusing on:

• Cloud-Native Readiness: Preparing our company for cloud-native operations.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Utilizing IaC to manage and provision cloud resources consistently.
• Automation: Automating the deployment of our SaaS applications to ensure efficiency and reliability.

By tackling these challenges head-on, we aim to transform our software portfolio and offer robust, scalable SaaS solutions to our customers.

Join us as we explore our strategy and the steps we’re taking to achieve cloud-native success.

Infrastructure as Code and AI - Does it Fit:

Infrastructure as Code is crucial for cloud native development. It allows to automate the deployment of cloud resources and comes with a lot of other benefits. How does Infrastructure as Code harmonize with AI tools like the GitHub Copilot? I wanted to investigate the matter and examine how well AI tools can be applied to several use cases related to Infrastructure as Code: for code generation, code interpretation, and error analysis. I intend to publish the results of this session. As part of this talk, I will give a live demonstration, to show how to create a Terraform configuration using the GitHub Copilot, to automate the provisioning of an Azure Kubernetes Cluster.

Reference

https://devopscon.io/cloud-platforms-serverless/large-enterprise-cloud-strategy-iac-usage/

https://devopscon.io/cloud-platforms-serverless/ai-usage-infrastructure-as-code/