5 ways to improve DevEx and security for infrastructure provisioning

Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) best practices can help businesses improve DevEx, speed up software delivery, and enhance security. Automating infrastructure provisioning with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) allows for codification, standardization, replication, reuse, storage, centralization, auditing, and versioning of infrastructure. This accelerates development and deployment processes while ensuring compliance and security standards are met. Building and reusing golden configurations helps maintain consistency across an organization's cloud environment, reducing the risk of snowflake servers and potential security vulnerabilities. Leveraging policy as code enables organizations to create, review, and version control automated provisioning checks in a single language that stakeholders can understand, audit, and contribute to. Enabling self-service infrastructure allows developers to work autonomously without compromising on compliance or security standards. Finally, automating infrastructure deletion helps avoid wastage of cloud resources by setting end-of-life dates or predefined inactivity periods for removal.