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We rebuilt Cloud Life's infrastructure delivery with System Initiative


This is the story of how we eliminated static configuration files from our infrastructure workflows at Cloud Life, and, in the process, cut delivery times by more than half, improved reliability, and made our engineers’ work feel much smoother and more manageable.

This is the story of how we eliminated static configuration files from our infrastructure workflows at Cloud Life, and, in the process, cut delivery times by more than half, improved reliability, and made our engineers’ work feel much smoother and more manageable. We’d built internal scripts to help, wrappers to handle repetitive resource definitions, diff tools to spot changes, but these just papered over the real issue. Instead of writing a config file for a VPC and pushing it through the pipeline, we modeled it visually in SI’s environment, dropped in our security defaults, and hit “apply.”

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