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What is Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software?
Cloud infrastructure automation software provides platforms and tools that enable IT professionals and DevOps teams to manage and automate processes related to cloud infrastructure management and operations. Compare and read user reviews of the best Cloud Infrastructure Automation software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch by Redwood
ActiveBatch by Redwood makes setting up and launching automation easy with no custom scripting required. With a low-code Super REST API adapter, over 100 pre-built job steps and a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow designer, you can integrate across any system, application and data source, on-prem, in the cloud or in hybrid environments. Maintain complete control and visibility and meet SLAs with monitoring of all automation from a single pane of glass and get custom alerts via emails or SMS. Managed Smart Queues dynamically scale resources for high-volume workloads, reducing process times while the self-service portal enables business users to run and monitor workflows independently. ActiveBatch meets security and compliance standards, with ISO 27001 and SOC 2, Type II certifications, encrypted connections and regular third-party tests, always keeping security at the forefront. Along with ongoing product advancements, get the added benefit of 24x7 support and on-site training. -
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Massdriver
Massdriver
Deliver developer self-service without the chaos. Visually build, scale, automate, and easily observe cloud infrastructure using Massdriver. Massdriver's cloud operations and DevOps platform enable developer self-service with guardrails and auditing operations teams trust. Eliminate operations backlogs and remove the pain of managing and configuring cloud infrastructure. Massdriver is a cloud management solution built to grow with your team. Enabling self-service shouldn't require learning a new toolchain. With Massdriver, your developers diagrams are living documentation of their cloud infrastructure. Each component added to their diagram is backed by your teams infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, or Pulumi. Accelerate your cloud journey by allowing teams to collaborate and iterate on cloud infrastructure quickly. With Massdriver, you can spend more time shipping features and less time managing infrastructure.Starting Price: Free -
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GitHub
GitHub
GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.Starting Price: $7 per month -
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GitLab
GitLab
GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.Starting Price: $29 per user per month -
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Pliant
Pliant.io
Pliant’s solution for IT Process Automation simplifies, streamlines, and secures how teams build and deploy automation. Reduce human error, ensure compliance, and elevate your efficiency, with Pliant. Ingest existing automation and write new automation with single-pane orchestration. Ensure compliance using consistent, practical built-in governance. Pliant has abstracted thousands of vendor APIs to create intelligent action blocks allowing users to drag-and-drop blocks, rather than writing and rewriting lines of code. From a single platform, citizen developers are able to build consistent and meaningful automation across platforms, services, and applications in minutes — maximizing value across the entire technology stack in one place. With our ability to add new APIs in 15 business days, anything that is not already out of the box will be in an industry leading timeframe. -
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SaltStack
SaltStack
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems. -
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Ansible
Red Hat
Ansible is a radically simple automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Ansible Automation Platform has grown over the past years to provide powerful automation solutions that work for operators, administrators and IT decision makers across a variety of technology domains. It’s a leading enterprise automation solution from Red Hat®, a thriving open source community, and the de facto standard technology of IT automation. Scale automation, manage complex deployments, and speed productivity with an enterprise automation platform that can be used across entire IT teams. Red Hat or partner consulting services help you advance your end-to-end automation journey for faster time to value.Starting Price: Free -
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Nerdio
Adar
Empowering Managed Service Providers & Enterprise IT Professionals to quickly and easily deploy Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, manage all environments from one simple platform, and optimize costs by saving up to 75% on Azure compute and storage. Nerdio Manager for Enterprise extends the native Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 admin capabilities with automatic and fast virtual desktop deployment, simple management in just a few clicks, and cost-optimization features for savings of up to 75% – paired with the unmatched security of Microsoft Azure and expert-level Nerdio support. Nerdio Manager for MSP is a multi-tenant Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 deployment, management, and optimization platform for Managed Service Providers that allows for automatic provisioning in under an hour (or connect to an existing deployment in minutes), management of all customers in a simple admin portal, and cost-optimization with Nerdio’s Advanced Auto-scaling.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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JFrog Artifactory
JFrog
The Industry Standard Universal Binary Repository Manager. Supports all major package types (over 27 and growing) such as Maven, npm, Python, NuGet, Gradle, Go, and Helm including Kubernetes and Docker as well as integration with leading CI servers and DevOps tools that you already use. Additional functionalities include: - High Availability that scales to infinity with active/active clustering of your DevOps environment and scales as business grows - On-Prem, Cloud, Hybrid, or Multi-Cloud Solution - De Facto Kubernetes Registry managing application packages, operating system’s component dependencies, open source libraries, Docker containers, and Helm charts with full visibility of all dependencies. Compatible with a growing list of Kubernetes cluster providers. -
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AWS CloudFormation
Amazon
AWS CloudFormation is a infrastructure provisioning and management tool that provides you the ability to create resource templates that specifies a set of AWS resources to provision. The templates allow you to version control your infrastructure, and also easily replicate your infrastructure stack quickly and with repeatability. Define an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnet or provisioning services like AWS OpsWorks or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with ease. Run anything from a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance to a complex multi-region application. Automate, test, and deploy infrastructure templates with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automation. AWS CloudFormation lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. Speed up cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code.Starting Price: $0.0009 per handler operation -
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Azure Automation
Microsoft
Automate all of those frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks. Azure Automation service helps you focus on work that adds business value. By reducing errors and boosting efficiency, it also helps to lower your operational costs. Update Windows and Linux systems across hybrid environments. Monitor update compliance across Azure, on-premises, and other cloud platforms for Windows and Linux. Schedule deployments to orchestrate the installation of updates within a defined maintenance window. Author and manage PowerShell configurations, import configuration scripts, and generate node configurations—all in the cloud. Use Azure Configuration Management to monitor and automatically update machine configuration across physical and virtual machines, Windows, or Linux—in the cloud or on-premises. & more -
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Chef
Progress Software
Chef turns infrastructure into code. With Chef, you can automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. Your infrastructure becomes as versionable, testable, and repeatable as application code. Chef Infrastructure Management ensures configurations are applied consistently in every environment with infrastructure management automation. Chef Compliance makes it easy to maintain and enforce compliance across the enterprise. Deliver successful application outcomes consistently at scale with Chef App Delivery. Chef Desktop allows IT teams to automate the deployment, management, and ongoing compliance of IT resources. Ensure configurations are applied consistently in every environment. Powerful policy-based configuration management system software. Runbook automation to consistently define, package & deliver applications. IT automation & DevOps dashboards for operational visibility. -
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SUSE Manager
SUSE
SUSE Manager was designed to help your enterprise DevOps and IT Operations teams reduce complexity and regain control of your IT assets with a single tool to manage Linux systems across a variety of hardware architectures, hypervisors as well as container, IoT and cloud platforms. It automates Linux server and IoT device provisioning, patching and configuration for faster, consistent and repeatable server deployment helping to optimize operations and reduce costs. And with automated monitoring, tracking, auditing and reporting of your systems, VMs, and containers across your development, test and production environments, you can ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations. -
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Telepresence
Ambassador Labs
Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.Starting Price: Free -
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Argonaut
Argonaut
Argonaut accelerates your shift to the cloud. You can go from provisioning environments to configuring your cloud to deploying your app in a matter of minutes. Our product provides you with built-in access to the best practices of your preferred stack, complete visibility into the health and costs of your infrastructure, and a plan that scales as you grow. Our customers have saved weeks of their cloud deployment timelines and thousands of dollars each month. You can get started for free and see the benefits for yourself.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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Skeddly
Eleven41 Software
Reduce Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs and automate IT tasks with Skeddly, an automate AWS solution. With Skeddly, users can execute scheduled and trigger actions at intervals of their own design. Skeddly automatically runs periodic and automatic backup of data for security purposes. Skeddly enables users to add resource tags to snapshots and images for categorization and archiving purposes. Skeddly also allows users to definite their own security policies by making a custom IAM policy.Starting Price: $0.15/month -
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Incredibuild
Incredibuild
Incredibuild is the leading platform for development acceleration. Our platform speeds up developer and CI builds with our distribution and caching technologies, cutting down wait times from hours and days to minutes. Most importantly, we do so without changing your code, tools, or processes, on prem or on the cloud. Incredibuild gives you better visibility into your builds, significant acceleration, and smarter build asset orchestration for 8-10x faster builds. 200,000 devs and managers at over 2,000 companies, including world-leading brands like Microsoft, Amazon, Citibank, Adobe, Disney, Intel, Samsung, EPIC Games, Nintendo, and many more rely on Incredibuild to turbocharge their development and continuously delight their customers.Starting Price: $0 -
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MachPanel
MachSol
MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform. It helps Telco’s, Hosters & Enterprises to aggregate, Provision, Automate, Bill & support Microsoft Cloud & On-premises enterprise applications through a powerful fully responsive & easy to use web interface. It offers an amazing opportunity to automate & Scale Microsoft Cloud Business by making it easier for CSP Direct & Indirect partners Own & Control Billing. On top of this it enables Microsoft CSP Direct Partners to showcase, bundle and sell their Office365 & Microsoft Azure offerings through their own white labelled marketplace and guarantees success with end to end automation. In addition to this MachPanel is Microsoft Validated Multi-tenant Control Panel for Exchange, supporting all available versions of Microsoft Exchange, Skype for Business, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Windows Web hosting & Active Directory Synchronization.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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Cloud Maker
Cloud Maker
Diagram Driven Cloud Infrastructure - Drag and drop design, automated deployment and the benefits of Infrastructure-as-Code, without the complexity! Cloud Maker lets Solution Architects and DevOps Engineers rapidly diagram infrastructure, check for security issues with Cloud Maker Overwatch, and deploy to the Cloud at the click of a button. Under the hood, we automatically generate Infrastructure-as-Code so that you get all the benefits without having to write a single line of code. Key features and benefits: - Visually design beautiful, standardized infrastructure diagrams - Shift security left with our Overwatch design-time security scanner - Automatically generate IaC - Deploy directly to the Cloud with Cloud Maker Pipelines - Consume your designs and our deployment engine through Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions & JFrog CI/CD integrations.Starting Price: $27/user/month -
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The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform delivers improved functionality, advanced security controls, and more simplified operations than native services from cloud providers. A cloud-based platform that is purpose-built to support distributed applications across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. As applications evolve through microservices and increased dependencies on APIs, new highly distributed architectures are introducing greater complexities, costs, and increased risks. Multiple appliances, software, and connectivity services must be deployed and managed to deliver apps. Traditional CDNs and hub-spoke networks were not designed for immersive or large-scale SaaS apps. Services with different APIs, policies, and observability require investments in automation. Apps deployed across distributed environments are not equally protected. Difficult to align DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps across service provisioning and security using ticket-based workflows.Starting Price: $25 per month
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Stacktape
Stacktape
Stacktape is a DevOps-free cloud framework that’s both powerful and easy at the same time. It allows you to develop, deploy and run applications on AWS. With 98% less configuration and without the need for DevOps or Cloud expertise. Unlike with other solutions, you can deploy both serverless (AWS lambda-based) and more traditional (container-based) applications. Stacktape also supports 20+ infrastructure components, including SQL databases, Load balancers, MongoDB Atlas clusters, Batch-jobs, Kafka topics, Redis clusters & more. Besides infrastructure management, Stacktape handles source code packaging, deployments, local/remote development, and much more. It also comes with a VScode extension and local development studio (GUI). Stacktape is a IaaC tool. A typical production-grade REST API is ~30 lines of config (compared to ~600-800 lines of CloudFormation/Terraform). The deployment can be done using a single command - from local machine or a CI/CD pipeline.Starting Price: $450/month -
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TotalCloud
Qualys
Build your cloud management journey by combining TotalCloud’s building blocks in any way you desire, with no-code automation. Do away with the need to script, without losing out on the flexibility of coding. Create, deploy and execute any solution with agility, saving 90% engineering effort. TotalCloud’s powerful workflow engine caters to small and large, complex infrastructures all the same. Gain full visibility into every account & region simultaneously though a single dashboard. Clone solutions or actions across every account through a single-click so you can scale effortlessly. Leverage the benefits of flexible triggers, filters, approvals and actions to achieve any use case. Achieve use cases across clouds with cloud-agnostic solutions & workflows. We’ve built several solutions so you don’t have to start from scratch, and we’re building more every day. -
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Puppet Enterprise
Puppet
Puppet is redefining what’s possible for continuous operations. Easily automate your environment to deliver at cloud speed and cloud scale with products that are responsive and predictive by design. 90% of the largest US-based companies rely on Puppet’s infrastructure as code to simplify the complexity of modern IT infrastructure. At Puppet, we’re redefining what is possible for continuous operations. We empower IT operations teams to easily automate their infrastructure, enabling them to deliver at cloud speed and cloud scale. Our scalable approach to infrastructure automation enables teams to innovate rapidly, with security and compliance baked in. We’re leading the way from find-and-fix to predicting at scale. No more surprises. We move at the speed of business, delivering infrastructure automation software that gives your teams back their time, and promises them, and your business. peace of mind.Starting Price: $120 per month -
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Terraform
HashiCorp
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files. HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) allows for concise descriptions of resources using blocks, arguments, and expressions. Run terraform plan to check whether the execution plan for a configuration matches your expectations before provisioning or changing infrastructure. Apply changes to hundreds of cloud providers with terraform apply to reach the desired state of the configuration. Define infrastructure as code to manage the full lifecycle — create new resources, manage existing ones, and destroy those no longer needed. -
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Otter by Inedo
Inedo
Otter helps you provision and configure your servers automatically, without ever needing to log-in to a command prompt. You can define reusable sets of configuration called roles, and then scale your infrastructure by simply assigning these roles to any number of servers. Let everyone on your team run complex scripts with a custom GUI that you develop around your script parameters. Enable anyone to develop advanced, multi-server orchestrations without needing advanced coding skills. Define desired states of configuration for your servers, detect “drift” from their actual configuration, and re-configure as needed. CI/CD for Infrastructure & Configuration Management. Read the guide to learn how you can deliver infrastructure changes using CI/CD pipelines with Otter and BuildMaster.Starting Price: $2,995/year -
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Bridgecrew
Bridgecrew
Automate your infrastructure security from commit to cloud. Streamline cloud security and enforce policies throughout the entire development lifecycle. Bridging the gap between code and security. Shift cloud security left with Bridgecrew's codified cloud security platform. Get complete cloud visibility and security-as-code guardrails to eliminate cloud drift over time. Detect policy violations automatically and address them fast with remediation-as-code. Maintain complete infrastructure visibility and address misconfigured resources with a single click. Find and fix IaC misconfigurations earlier to prevent risky deployments and track configuration drift. Analyze IAM for over-privileged permissions and enforce right-sized IAM with policy-as-code. Embed cloud security into every code review via native integrations with VCS, CI/CD, and beyond.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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SolusIO
SolusIO
Our goal is to give our partners and customers the solutions they need for their unique digital transformation journeys. Across industries, companies must leverage technology to deepen customer experience and create new market opportunities. At its foundation, that requires an evolving IT infrastructure to meet changing demands and innovate faster. We eliminate the complexities of virtual infrastructure management by offering blazing fast, on-demand VMs, a simple API, and an easy-to-use self-service control panel for customers, on top of a powerful administration control panel for service providers. SolusIO provides a set of powerful virtualization technologies with support for hypervisor and container-based virtualization. Manage KVM virtual machines from one central point. Support for OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, and others will be added in the upcoming releases.Starting Price: $2.50 per month -
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Leostream
Leostream Corporation
Connect to anything - anywhere, any time, and from any device, quickly and securely. A modern web-based UI is your centralized hub for all your remote resources. Management wants Windows, designers want macOS, and developers want Linux - support multi-OS environments with ease. Leostream works seamlessly with Teradici Cloud Access Software and PCoIP Remote Workstation Cards, providing high-quality graphics for applications running in the datacenter or the cloud. Together, Leostream and Scale Computing offer a complete VDI solution that is simple to set up, easy to manage, and cost-effective for small business. Leostream manages user-to-resource assignments and connections in large-scale enterprise environments from wherever your users roam. Build a VDI or DaaS solution your clients will love with Leostream. Leostream provides all the tools you need to build and deploy a VDI.Starting Price: $7.50 per user per month -
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FishOS
Sardina Systems
The FishOS solution promises to deliver a turnkey infrastructure for traditional enterprise workload and next-gen applications, with data security and protection, zero‐click operations, and AI-enabled operational simplicity through automation. FishOS’ award-winning AI-powered decision engines enable unmatched 10x-reduction in TCO, reducing energy OpEx and hardware and facilities’ CapEx. The solution aims to maximize returns on cloud infrastructure investments while providing elastic pay‐as‐you‐grow economics. We eliminate over-provisioning and prediction risk and enable resilient operations with 24×7 x 365 predictive analytics. A full life-cycle view on OpenStack cloud and Kubernetes orchestration are offered by FishOS. This allows enterprises to confidently and predictably deploy, reliably operate, and upgrade with zero downtime. OpenStack and Kubernetes, together, serve as a framework for building highly scalable clouds to handle the most demanding of workloads. -
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AutoCloud
AutoCloud
Maintain visibility into multi-cloud security, compliance, cost, and drift with automated infrastructure diagrams, change tracking, and a GraphQL API. After an easy, agentless onboarding, AutoCloud continually gathers and standardizes your multi-cloud, multi-environment data, then provides a variety of methods to interact with it. Even small updates can cause unexpected application outages, performance degradation, or security incidents that take days to track down. Spot where problems were first introduced with "git diff" for your cloud Prevent incidents and stay on top of configuration drift with intelligent alerts. Digging through static, text-heavy security and compliance reports to find actionable information. Cross-referencing information from multiple third party tools with provider consoles. AutoCloud's custom visualization engine makes gathering insights easy.Starting Price: $1500 per month
Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software Guide
Cloud infrastructure automation software is a type of program that allows businesses to quickly and easily automate the deployment, configuration, and management of their cloud-based systems. This type of software performs tasks such as provisioning resources and automating workloads to make managing cloud services easier and more efficient.
One of the main benefits of using cloud infrastructure automation (CIA) software is its ability to save time. By automating certain processes, businesses are able to do many tasks that used to require manual effort in a fraction of the time. Businesses can also use CIA to perform large-scale operations with minimal oversight, which means fewer errors during deployment or updates. As well as being faster, CIA software ensures consistency between different deployments, so all your applications will be running optimally without having to manually configure each one individually.
Another advantage of using CIA is its scalability—you can scale up or down depending on your needs without having to invest in additional hardware or add resources manually. Additionally, by using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you can replicate environments quickly and accurately if needed for testing and development purposes.
The security aspect is also important when considering cloud automation tools; CIA solutions come with built-in security measures such as encryption protocols for data at rest and in transit, multi-factor authentication for user accounts, IP whitelisting for increased control over access points, logging capabilities for monitoring usage patterns, alerts for suspicious activity, etcetera. Moreover, these programs are designed with compliance requirements in mind; they include features such as configurable policies that ensure adherence to specific regulations like HIPAA or PCI DSS standards.
Overall Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software helps organizations reduce costs related to labor hours associated with deploying and managing servers, storage devices and other IT assets while maintaining high levels of performance from their services on a secure platform—making it an effective solution for any business looking optimize their IT operations through automation.
Features of Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software
- Infrastructure Provisioning: Cloud infrastructure automation software enables users to quickly provision resources such as databases, servers, and other services in the cloud. This reduces manual effort and speeds the deployment of applications.
- Monitoring & Logging: Automation software provides detailed real-time monitoring of cloud services and logs to help users monitor their performance and identify potential issues before they become problems.
- Intelligent Scale: Automated scaling helps users easily scale their cloud resources up or down on demand, allowing for faster response times for traffic spikes or changes in resource requirements.
- Configuration Management: Automation tools can help keep configurations consistent across different deployments, which simplifies maintenance and troubleshooting. This also helps ensure security compliance standards are met by ensuring that all nodes have the same configuration settings.
- Deployment Orchestration: Automation tools can help coordinate complex deployments by managing multiple tasks at once. This can be used to deploy updates quickly without manual intervention or to manage large-scale deployments with multiple components that must be synchronized to work properly.
- Cost Optimization: Through automated tracking of cloud resource usage, automation software can help optimize costs by recommending adjustments in resources and services when necessary to reduce overall spending on public cloud services.
Types of Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Solutions: Infrastructure-as-code solutions allow IT administrators to manage cloud resources using high level code and configurations. These solutions provide an efficient way to automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud infrastructure. Popular IaC solutions include Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
- Serverless Computing: Serverless computing allows applications to run without needing a physical server available for them to run on. This type of automation makes it easy to scale applications up or down depending on the current demand. Popular serverless platforms include AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
- Cloud Management Platforms (CMP): A CMP is a platform that provides users with centralized control over multiple cloud infrastructure services from different vendors in one single interface. These platforms can be used to create new instances of servers or networks, roll out updates across large deployments, monitor performance or usage metrics for cost optimization purposes, and more. Popular CMPs include VMware vRealize Automation, Red Hat CloudForms, Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (SCORCH), IBM PowerScale IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack (ICM), HPE OneView Integrated System Manager (ISM), Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c/13c/14c/15c/16c/17c Cloud Control (OEMCC).
- Configuration Management Tools: Configuration management tools allow users to easily deploy software across multiple servers in the cloud at once. The tools make it possible for teams to rapidly configure new systems or manage existing ones by keeping track of system states and making necessary changes when needed. Popular configuration management tools include ManageIQ, ApexDeployerXEtremeFlexiServerHedgehogDocker SwarmKubernetes Saltstack Ansible Chef Puppet Jenkins.
- Monitoring and Logging Solutions: Monitoring and logging solutions allow IT administrators to keep track of their cloud infrastructure in real-time. These solutions offer dashboards that enable users to view performance metrics, detect errors, triage incidents, and proactively manage the cloud environment. Popular monitoring and logging solutions include SplunkCloudWatchDatadogPrometheusElastic StackGrafanaKibanaGraylog.
Trends Related to Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software
- Increased Cost Savings: Cloud infrastructure automation software enables organizations to automate operations, reduce manual labor costs, and increase efficiency. This leads to cost savings in the long run.
- Improved Efficiency: Automation software automates mundane and repetitive tasks, freeing up time and resources that can be used elsewhere. This improves efficiency and allows organizations to focus on more important tasks.
- Scalability: Cloud infrastructure automation software makes it easy to scale resources up or down as needed without having to manually configure them. This makes it easier to keep up with changing needs and helps organizations stay agile.
- Increased Security: Automation software can help ensure that all security protocols are followed properly and helps minimize human error. This can help protect an organization’s data and overall security posture.
- Automated Compliance: Automation software can also help organizations keep up with ever-changing compliance standards by automating processes such as auditing and reporting. This ensures that organizations remain compliant with applicable regulations.
- Enhanced Insights: Automation software enables organizations to gather insights about their cloud infrastructure, such as usage trends and resource allocation. This helps them better understand how their cloud environment is being used and make adjustments as necessary.
Benefits of Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software
- Cost Savings: Cloud infrastructure automation software helps to streamline the process of resource allocation and reduces manual labor, therefore leading to reduced operational costs. Automation software also ensures that resources are used efficiently, which further reduces expenses and improves return on investment (ROI).
- Scalability: Cloud infrastructure automation software makes it easy for organizations to scale their environment up and down depending on their changing needs. This enables businesses to have access to the resources they need when they need them without having to manually add or remove resources.
- Faster Deployment Time: Automation software can accelerate the deployment process by automating complex tasks like configuration management, which in turn leads to faster time-to-market for products and services.
- Improved Efficiency: By eliminating tedious manual processes and allowing users to quickly provision cloud resources, automation software helps improve organizational efficiency. The use of cloud automation tools also helps developers focus on developing applications rather than managing servers or configuring networks.
- Improved Reliability: Cloud automation tools help ensure that applications are deployed with a consistent system architecture across different environments. This eliminates the risk of failure due to human errors during manual deployments and aids in maintaining higher levels of uptime for cloud applications and services.
- Security Benefits: Automation software can be used to continuously monitor systems for vulnerabilities, patching new security updates as soon as they become available. This helps organizations proactively protect themselves from cyber threats while reducing cost associated with post-breach remediation efforts.
How to Choose the Right Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software
Compare cloud infrastructure automation software according to cost, capabilities, integrations, user feedback, and more using the resources available on this page.
- Identify and analyze your needs: Before you can determine what type of cloud automation software suits your organization best, you need to consider factors such as the complexity of your project, reliability and scalability requirements, long-term budgets, and ease of use.
- Set objectives: Once you've identified and analyzed your needs, it's time to set clear goals and objectives for what you want to achieve with automated cloud infrastructure.
- Research options: Investigate various automation platforms in the market that address the criteria outlined in step one. Ask vendors for a demo or trial version if available so you can explore its features firsthand.
- Evaluate suitability vs cost: Compare different products against each other keeping in mind their cost as well as their usability and compatibility with your existing environment before making a final selection.
- Start rolling out: Once you’ve chosen a product that fits within budget constraints while meeting all necessary requirements, start rolling it out across teams so everyone is up-to-date on how it works before deployment begins in earnest.
What Types of Users Use Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software?
- System Administrators: System administrators are responsible for managing the hardware and software infrastructure of an organization. They use cloud infrastructure automation software to help them manage their workloads more efficiently.
- DevOps Engineers: DevOps engineers deploy and manage applications on a cloud platform, as well as track performance metrics and automate routine processes such as deployments, scaling, and rollbacks. Cloud infrastructure automation software helps them speed up these tasks so they can focus on more complex tasks.
- Business Analysts: Business analysts use cloud infrastructure automation software to analyze the data associated with an application or system in order to make informed decisions about how resources can be used more efficiently or how services can be improved.
- Security Professionals: Security professionals use cloud infrastructure automation to monitor the security of applications running on a cloud platform, detect threats, and develop policies and procedures that ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Application Developers: Application developers rely on cloud infrastructure automation tools to create robust applications quickly by automating provisioning and deployment processes as well as testing routines. This helps reduce development time while ensuring applications are secure before they go live.
- Cloud Architects: Cloud architects leverage automated tools to design efficient cloud architectures that maximize cost savings while still providing reliable performance. They also monitor usage trends over time and make adjustments when necessary in order to optimize their environment’s performance and reliability.
How Much Does Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software Cost?
The cost of cloud infrastructure automation software varies depending on the type of software purchased and the features included. Generally speaking, cloud automation software can range anywhere from a few hundred dollars per month to thousands of dollars per year. Those looking for an entry-level solution may opt for a basic package that offers limited functionality, while more comprehensive packages may offer enterprise-grade features such as automated deployment, self-healing servers and integrated monitoring capabilities. Additionally, certain providers also offer custom pricing plans designed for specific business needs or special features. In some cases, companies may be able to negotiate a better deal when investing in long-term commitments or multiple services at once. Ultimately, it’s important to weigh the cost against the value that the automation software will bring to your organization's cloud infrastructure before making any decisions.
Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software Integrations
Cloud infrastructure automation software can integrate with a variety of different types of software to provide users with an efficient and comprehensive system. These types of software include, but are not limited to, configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet, container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) solutions such as Jenkins and Travis CI, monitoring tools such as Icinga and Nagios, version control systems such as Subversion and Git, virtualization platforms such as VMware and OpenStack, and serverless computing platforms such as AWS Lambda. By integrating these different types of software together with cloud infrastructure automation software, users can create a robust environment for developing applications that is optimized for scalability and flexibility.