Challenges Towards Modeling and Generating Infrastructure-as-Code

Abstract

The infrastructure-as-code (IaC) is an approach for automating the deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of environments for online services and applications that developers usually do manually. The benefit is not only reducing the time and effort but also the operational costs. This paper aims at describing our experience in applying IaC in cloud-native applications, mainly discussing the key challenges towards modeling and generating IaC faced in the ongoing project Programming Trustworthy Infrastructure-As-Code in a Secure Framework (PIACERE). The concluding insights could spur the wider adoption of IaC by software developers.