Cloud makes the computing resources that are found in data centers available over the internet. That means all of the servers and databases that may have in the past been pictured in big rooms can be created and managed via software.
The development of the cloud also changed the approach to managing infrastructure from one that is manual to one that is dictated by sets of instructions that can be written by developers to tell the machines what to do. In other words, it’s more like code.
This has given way to a new area that, fittingly, is called infrastructure-as-code. While this technology allows ops teams to automatically launch new servers, it also presents some challenges for developers, according to Fugue CEO Josh Stella.
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