Episode 10: Infrastructure as Code in the Hybrid Cloud
In this episode, KJ Burke and Jacques Baribeault from CDW and Jon Calalang from F5 Networks discuss how infrastructure as code (IaC) provides value, what key challenges organizations face and the driving forces behind the need for IaC.
Featured in this Episode
KJ Burke is an innovative and driven IT infrastructure architect with solid interpersonal and communication skills. He is currently the Principal Technology Strategist at CDW Canada, with over 20 years in the IT industry and plenty of experience in planning and deploying technology to improve business processes and drive measurable value.
Jacques Baribeault is a highly experienced professional services consultant with over 25 years in the information technology and services industry. Jacques is skilled in networking, application delivery, security, virtualization, data centres and all things cloud. As a strong proponent of continued learning in an ever-changing landscape, Jacques is also a certified trainer for F5 and other technologies.
Jon Calalang is a Solution Architect with F5 Networks. He's been a speaker at Microsoft Technology Expo, F5 Agility, RedSky Security Summit, Utilities Technology Council and ISSA Conferences; he is also a content creator and contributor of multiple F5 automation programs. Presentations and content from Jon focus on perspective learning, covering relevant topics like DevOps, security and efficiencies.
In this episode, we discuss…
- What is operational trust, and why is it a roadblock for many organizations?
- How to break down barriers for organizations trying to implement infrastructure as code
- How can infrastructure as code address differences between public cloud and on-premises, VM-based solutions and container systems?
- How infrastructure as code can drive business value through repeatability
- What conversations you should be having when you start implementing infrastructure as code
- Leveraging application as code, infrastructure as code and configuration management to retain workloads in the public cloud
- How infrastructure as code helps drive the operating model in the data centre
- Training and retaining employees with automation and infrastructure as code
Findings from our Cloud Report
86% of organizations that move to the cloud will repatriate some workloads due to security, performance and cost.
