Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Terraform, Ansible and Packer — environments you can rebuild, not nurse.
If your environment cannot be rebuilt from source control, you do not have infrastructure — you have an artefact nobody dares touch. The aim is always the same: every environment reproducible from code, every change reviewable, and nothing important living only in someone's memory.
Delivery covers Terraform for provisioning, Ansible for configuration and hardening, and Packer for golden images, wired into CI so that changes are validated before they land. Automation is chosen where it repays the effort — a script that saves five minutes once a year is not worth maintaining, and I will say so.
What this covers
- Terraform modules and state strategy for AWS, Azure and on-premises
- Ansible roles for configuration, patching and CIS hardening
- Packer golden images across cloud and hypervisor targets
- CI validation pipelines so broken infrastructure code never merges
- Documentation written for the engineer who inherits it
Delivered
Terraform and Ansible automation of provisioning and security configuration cut manual provisioning effort by roughly 60% on a large airline cloud estate. Security policy enforcement was automated across a 65,000-user hybrid estate with Terraform and PowerShell.
Discuss a infrastructure as code & automation project
Email darren.pilkington@it-architect.uk or get in touch. Initial conversations are free and you will get a straight view on scope and feasibility.