In this series of articles we will describe our migration experience to AWS.
Why a migration?
Our old provider had limits. We had to overcome.
In particular:
- No automation
- No flexibility
- No autoscaling
If we wanted to grow it was necessary to migrate to a provider with these features.
Need of change
From the new provider we expected to find these features:
- Infrastructure as code
- Flexibility
- Horizontal scaling
- Multiple environments
- All services by one provider
- Cost optimization
We analyzed all the possibilities and the choice was AWS. There was everything we needed, even more!
Infrastructure as code
How to create an infrastructure as a code? There are many alternatives. We chose Ansible.
Why?
- IT automation tool
- Easy lo learn
- No coding skills. It uses YAML
- No agents on target machines
- Ready-made AWS modules
- Can be easily idempotent
In the next article we’ll show you another chapter of our migration to AWS.
Stay tuned!
