AWS Cloud Training is a service offered to developers and companies a simple way to create a collection of AWS and third-party resources. It also helps to provision and manage them in an orderly and predictable way, throughout their life cycles, by treating infrastructure as code.
In the next post we tell you the alternative to AWS CloudFormation that best suits each company.
What are the best alternatives to AWS cloudformation?
Developers can implement and update compute, database, and many other resources in a simple, self-explanatory style that abstracts the complexity of resource-specific APIs. AWS Cloud Training It is designed to allow resource lifecycles to be managed in a timely manner. repeated, predictable and safe. At the same time, it enables automatic restores, automated state management, and resource management across all accounts and regions. Recently made improvements and options allow for multiple ways to create resources, including using AWS CDKs for coding in higher-level languages, import of existing resources, detection of configuration changes, and a new registry that makes it easy to create custom types of resources that inherit many core benefits of CloudFormation.
1.Terraform
terraform is a tool of open source orchestration developed by Hashicorp that allows us to define our infrastructure as code, this means that it is possible to write the definition of our infrastructure in a text file using a simple and declarative programming language.
Terraform has support for a large number of cloud and on-premises infrastructure providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GCP, Digital Ocean, Microsoft Azure, VMware vSphere, are examples of service providers.
You can see all the supported providers in the Terraform documentation.
Some of the benefits that Terraform has are:
Manages considerably large infrastructures or can manage a single application.
terraform not limited to one provider specific.
Provides a simple and unified syntax that allows you to manage almost any resource instead of requiring separate tools for each platform and service.
The configurations that are made in Terraform can be shared which is a reusable.
Your data center model can be versioned, in this way it is easier to observe the progress of our service and control the changes.
2.Digital Ocean
DigitalOcean is a startup provider of infrastructure services cloud computing that offers a platform focused on software developers.
Digital Ocean is very popular among developers of Open Source and competes mainly with the services of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Compute Engine.
To implement Digital Ocean as an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) environment, the developers launch a private virtual machine (VM) instance, which Digital Ocean calls ?Droplet?. Developers choose the size of the ?Droplet? and in which geographic region and data center it will be executed. In Digital Ocean there is only the option of the operational system Linux in the following distributions: Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, CoreOS or FreeBSD.
Instead of choosing a Linux distribution, developers can also create Droplets of existing VM images that come with pre-installed apps - a Digital Ocean option called "One-click Apps."
Features of DigitalOcean
- The first thing you have to know is that Digital Ocean calls you droplets to their private servers in the cloud, and the same company can manage several Droplets on its platform to integrate them with each other, developing a virtual private network.
- Those running the Digital Ocean platform will be able to hold different types of information, from websites and applications to product catalogs, databases or games, centralizing everything in one place.
- Digital Ocean allows integrate with different third party platforms, such as Drone, Joomla, Drupal, Docker and Magneto, among others.
- Digital Ocean offers within its options the Dedicated vCPU. This is perfect for those who need to carry out robust and complex projects.
- The option of scalability It allows companies to acquire only what they require at each stage of their projects, and this element can even be so specific that it can be generated at the level of hours. If, for example, an e-commerce needs more space at certain times, it can only be extended during this period of time to comply with the company's guidelines.
The Digital Ocean Terraform provider is used to interact with resources supported by the platform (Infrastructure as Code). Users need to make the necessary settings to use it.
3.Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) It is a platform that offers more than 90 information technology services (also called products), which businesses, IT professionals, and developers can leverage to work more efficient, win more flexibility and/or allow them a strategic advantage.
GCP offers services for balance web load and optimally distribute web traffic in different instances, increasing availability (High Availability GCP) and fault tolerance. These services include load balancing HTTP and TCP/UDP and load balancing SSL.
Google also has its tool for provisioning infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform. With Cloud Deployment Manager you can specify all the resources you need declaratively in YAML format and do the parallel deployments, that is, at the same time. It has a feature of preview that allows you to check the changes before committing the deployment. Write flexible templates and configuration files and use them to create deployments that have a variety of Google Cloud services, such as cloud-storage, Compute Engine which is a Cloud SQL, configured to work together. If you work with Google Cloud Platform, it is a tool to consider.
It also has the option of work with Terraform and perform the interaction with the different resources offered by the Google Cloud Platform. You can consult more information about the service in the guide of Google Deployment Manager Basics.
4.Microsoft Azure
One of the main advantages of cloud computing is the agility to experiment, implement development environments and deploy applications in production. Cloud providers are continually working to improve their services and, of course, make them easier to manage.
In the case of Azure, there is a structure composed of several elements, there are the physical data centers, the virtualization layer and all the tools to maintain the cloud. In front, they have placed an interface that exposes a RESTful APIs so you can interact and manage the resources of your solutions. That's it Azure Resource Manager, the service that allows you to perform deployments and manage resources more easily.
And understand, everything you do in Azure goes through Resource Manager, however, you have to somehow communicate and ask him what to do, so you need to know some terms.
- Subscription: basically it is the billing account, you will have at least one subscription, but you can have more. The resource groups are created in the subscription.
- resource pool: it's a logical container where the resources that make up your solutions deployed in Azure are placed.
- Resource: virtual machines, virtual networks, network interfaces, disks, databases, are some examples of resources. In summary, all services and items available in Azure are called resources.
- resource providers: They are located exactly below the Azure Resource Manager layer and are the direct connections to resources.
5.Cycloid
cycloid is a hybrid cloud collaboration platform and DevOps enterprise level that helps automate repetitive tasks and empowers end users through a self service portal easy to use, facilitating a state-of-the-art developer experience in your organization.
Having good visibility into your cloud services is important, but keeping your cloud diagrams up to date takes time. Sharing YAML lines is not an efficient way to share information, but again. Infrastructure as code is DevOps best practice.
that's why i think InfraView, a tool that provides a centralized graphical representation of your infrastructure . By displaying the information graphically, people without specialized knowledge can see the different resources and how they relate to each other. When everyone has access to the same information, the exchange of knowledge is more fluid and equitable.
InfraView
Provides visibility into your cloud infrastructure
Keep infrastructure up-to-date
Allows full visibility of cloud resources
Help build bridges between teams.
