Name: Analyst Corner | Infrastructure Automation
Start: 2021-11-09T17:00:00Z
End: 2021-11-09T17:00:22.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Quali is the leader in delivering cloud-agnostic Environment as a Service (EaaS) solutions for development and testing, sales demo/POC, training, and cyber range teams. Global 500 OEMs, ISVs, financial services, retailers, and innovators everywhere among others rely on Quali’s award-winning CloudShell platform to create self-service, on-demand environments that cut cloud costs, optimize infrastructure utilization, and increase productivity.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Resource Manager, have become integral to day-to-day operations for engineering and testing teams looking to meet project deadlines. 
 
At scale, however, IaC usage introduces new operational challenges. Managing large volumes of IaC files is difficult on its own. Operations teams often struggle to track how their teams are using IaC assets, let alone implement permissions or policies to govern usage. A skills gap exacerbates these challenges, as managing IaC tools requires highly specialized knowledge of cloud- and tool-specific code that is rare in the job market. 
 
As a result, many organizations face a trade-off—slow their teams down to ensure they’re following usage policies, or prioritize speed at the expense of increased risk of security breaches, lapses in regulatory compliance, and unexpected budget overruns.  
 
Join this virtual panel discussion to learn more about: 
• The challenges for the operational teams responsible for ensuring governance while under pressure to meet project timelines 
• Risks to look for related to how your teams are provisioning cloud infrastructure 
• The automation options to optimize how your teams use IaC in the context of the environments needed to support application development

Addressing Risks and Optimizing How Your Teams Use Cloud Infrastructure

When it was first introduced 15 years ago, Infrastructure as Code was a real disrupter for IT and one the key enabler of the DevOps approach. It then became the de facto method to quickly describe and deploy cloud infrastructure. The shift to a developer centric vision of infrastructure provided the ability to support frequent updates and API centric automation.  As cloud infrastructure became more and more commoditized, and IaC practices where more broadly adopted, they also saw their limits. One of them is that the needs of developers are application centric, whereas IaC is by definition Infrastructure centric. This creates a gap between the expectation of the Dev team and the Ops team that has resulted in delays and additional security risks. As cloud providers are moving up the stack with more value added services, and organizations are slowly evolving to scale their digital transformation efforts, providing the proper governance and management on top of infrastructure as code has become critical.

In this webinar, we review some trends and best practices with infrastructure as code, and discuss how Quali’s SaaS platform, Torque, can help enterprises DevOps practitioners scale their IaC efforts and leverage their investments in this space. We also have a demo!

How to Scale Infrastructure as Code Initiatives on AWS

It’s no secret that supporting developer productivity requires a cultural shift—we’ve heard it in every webinar, thought-leadership session and DevOps podcast out there. Rarely will you hear real-world examples of how successful operations teams were able to boost developer productivity with cloud resources and it is even rarer still to hear about the, well, not-so-successful stories.

In this session, industry veterans Colin Fletcher and Alex Irizarry reveal—with real-world examples—the common culture, people, process and technology mistakes they’ve seen organizations' make when it comes to delivering the cloud resources developers need to do their job.

Join us for a fun—and not too long—conversation where they will:
>Identify the top 5 things to avoid when supporting developers with cloud resources
>Discuss how to recognize each “avoidance opportunity” before it’s too late
>Share alternatives and options that bypass trouble spots

5 Don'ts for Supporting Developers with Cloud Resources

Over the past year-and-a-half, the Coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we approach many aspects of our daily lives, especially the way we work. With so much of the workforce having gone remote, both employers and employees have had to adopt all new ways of approaching their day-to-day business. Shifting to a work-from-home model means more difficulty accessing labs for use cases like software testing, sales demos, training, and customer support. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to accommodate managing lab environments for a distributed workforce through: 
>>Standardizing environment configurations via blueprints 
>>Self-service access to lab environments 
>>Role-based Access Controls (RBAC) and Single-sign On (SSO) 
>>Maintaining Governance  
>>Ensuring security protocols and compliance standards 
>>Controlling resource utilization 
>>Maintaining productivity 

Sign up now to reserve your spot!

The Key to Maintaining Lab Continuity with a  Distributed Workforce

Welcome to our Tech Short video series on CloudShell! This is the first in the series where Tui from our Tech Marketing team will give you an overview of CloudShell.

With CloudShell, you can enable self-service provisioning and automated decommissioning of hybrid and on-prem environments to streamline the development, testing, and certification of physical and virtual infrastructure. This is a first of 5 videos where we'll walk you through how to automate the provisioning process while reducing the heavy demand on IT.

For more information on CloudShell, please go to quali.com/cloudshell or visit our community at community.quali.com/

The Key to Automating Infrastructure Provisioning

Everyone knows that infrastructure automation is fundamental to any DevOps platform. However, infrastructure automation requires not only coding abilities, but also cloud network, security and cost expertise, and Infrastructure as Code skills. It’s not something developers want to waste their time on. Being able to provide on-demand self-service infrastructure provisioning and deployment to dev teams can free them from building and maintaining their own cloud automation. It makes it possible for developers to focus on developing the features and products that really matter.

But as self-service increases in popularity and becomes a mandatory requirement, you may ask yourself: are all self-services created equally?

In this webinar, Maya Ber Lerner, CTO at Quali, will review common implementations of self-service and on-demand infrastructure, as well as share best practices for choosing the right implementation.

Getting it Right: Self-service in Cloud Automation

Bottom-up DevOps initiatives are a wonderful way of bringing about positive change to application teams. A common danger is that local efforts can lead to local optimization. At some point, grassroots efforts start to build their own technical debt which hampers their initial promise and extinguishes the teams' excitement. 

At DevOps Experience, an annual virtual summit hosted by MediaOps, Quali's CTO, Maya Ber Lerner, discusses common life cycles of bottom-up DevOps projects and their use of specific open source and commercial tools, as well as pros and cons of each.

Scaling Bottom-up DevOps Initiatives: Choose Your Tools Wisely

Better quality. Faster releases. Lower costs. These principles drive innovation in the DevOps world. As a result, software testing is no longer a point function buried in the software delivery pipeline. It now plays a broader, increasingly critical role in how modern organizations deliver digital business services by ensuring change value is met, quality is delivered, and risk is governed from concept to business realization.

However, to maintain quality across the accelerated software delivery lifecycle, complex infrastructure and effective use of testing tools need to be built, managed and made available to teams with diverse roles in geographically diverse clouds and testing environments.

Infrastructure Automation tools can create, provision, maintain, and decommission critical environments throughout the software development lifecycle to manage IT infrastructure demands easily and effectively.

During this webinar, David Williams, VP of Product Strategy at Quali, and Michael Giacometti, Solution Architect at Qualitest, will discuss:

-How enterprise organizations scale and evolve their development test practices
-How to achieve software development excellence
-How enterprise organizations define their software delivery processes and measure them against business value

How to QA Infrastructure Automation

DevOps practitioners experience various challenges when it comes to leveraging cloud environments for software development. Concerns around building, managing, and controlling costs of cloud environments can all be addressed and improved by the right infrastructure automation solution.

In this webinar, we discuss how CloudShell Colony solves major challenges impacting every level of the business including DevOps practitioners, managers, and C-level executives. 

Join us to learn about
>>>Overcoming the time-consuming obstacle of ensuring infrastructure automation scripts remain compliant with company policies
>>>Maintaining environment consistency and avoiding errors in configuration
>>>Reducing pipeline fragility and risk from piecemealed automation tools
>>>Managing cloud spend
>>>Increasing visibility of cloud resource consumption

How to Tame Chaos in Enterprise DevOps

Got #infrustration? We've got you covered. Check out our latest QualiFYI episode featuring Quali CEO, Lior Koriat, as we dig into all things automation, open source, and infrastructure. We're here to help you end the infrustration.

QualiFYI | ep. 8: Future Proofing Infrastructure Automation

"I like to call infrastructur eautomation hidden in plain sight because so many people, so many organizations feel the lack of it, but they can't even articulate the fact that this is their problem." See what else Qualitest's Chief Innovation Officer, Aviram Shotten, had to say about digital transformation in our latest #QualiFYI episode.

QualiFYI | ep. 7: Why Your Digital Transformation Relies on Automated Testing

Ever wonder how Walmart does DevOps? Join their Head of DevOps Dojo to learn all about their DevOps practices, and get insight into why so many DevOps initiatives fail.

QualiFYI | ep. 6: Walmart's DevOps Best Practices Revealed

Organizations that achieve the automation and self-service ideals of DevOps are able to build, release, and deploy features and apps to users faster and with better quality than the competition. But those ideals are elusive to many teams, especially where changes to existing build and release pipelines are met with fear of losing control over security, compliance, and cloud infrastructure costs.

Join experts from the DevOps Institute and AWS Marketplace to learn how to enable Development and QA teams with automated, self-service, and compliant environments across the pipeline to speed up application development and delivery.
 
Join us to learn about:
  - Best practices on how to effectively implement GitOps with infrastructure version control
  - Getting Dev, QA, Ops and Security teams working together to enable self-service environments across the CI/CD pipeline
  - How to adopt immutable infrastructure patterns to avoid painful rollback scenarios and easily re-build vs. repair production environments
  - Using tools in AWS Marketplace, such as Quali CloudShell Colony, to provide controlled, self-service, on-demand environments for developers and QA

How to use Infrastructure as Code for automated self-service AWS environments

For the latest episode, our host, Arta, sat down with Quali's Chief Product Officer, Edan, as he shared the secret to accelerating product release cycles while maintaining #visibility and governance. Check out the interview to learn more now.

QualiFYI | ep. 5: The Secret to Accelerated Release Cycles

Quali’s David Williams and Colin Fletcher join Mitch Ashley on Digital Anarchist to discuss the future of infrastructure. Learn about the challenges businesses are facing in digital transformation, how infrastructure has changed, how to manage complex environments, and what is to come in the cloud revolution.

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