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Infrastructure Automation (Infrastructure as Code) every environment defined in code, reviewed and repeatable

O Clock Software, headquartered in Chennai, India, automates cloud and server infrastructure with infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible, Bicep and CloudFormation. Environments become repeatable, changes are reviewed like application code, and a lost environment can be rebuilt in minutes instead of days.

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What we build

Infrastructure Automation: what we build

Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible and similar tools. Here are the six kinds of infrastructure as code work we are asked for most often.

Choosing the tool

Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, CloudFormation or Pulumi?

Each tool has a sweet spot. Many teams use Terraform for cloud resources and Ansible for server configuration.

Tool Best for Watch out for
Terraform / OpenTofu Cloud resources across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud State files need careful handling
Ansible Configuring servers and applications Less suited to managing cloud resources
Bicep Azure-only teams Azure only
AWS CloudFormation / CDK AWS-only teams AWS only
Pulumi Teams who prefer general-purpose languages Smaller community than Terraform

How we deliver

How we deliver Infrastructure Automation

  1. 01

    Inventory

    What exists today and how it was built.

  2. 02

    Design modules

    Reusable building blocks and naming standards.

  3. 03

    Codify

    Existing and new infrastructure defined in code.

  4. 04

    Automate

    Plans and applies through pipelines with review.

  5. 05

    Guard

    Policy checks and drift detection.

Technology

Technology for Infrastructure Automation

Chosen per project for fit, maintainability and your team's skills.

IaC

  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • Bicep
  • CloudFormation
  • AWS CDK
  • Pulumi

Configuration

  • Ansible
  • Packer
  • cloud-init

Policy & security

  • Open Policy Agent
  • Checkov
  • tfsec

Workflow

  • Atlantis
  • Terraform Cloud
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI

Straight answers

Is Infrastructure Automation right for you?

We would rather recommend less than sell you more. Here is how we judge it.

A good fit when

  • Environments are built by hand
  • Test and production differ in unexplained ways
  • Rebuilding after a failure would take days
  • Several teams change infrastructure

  • You run one small server

    Manual set-up with good notes may be enough.

  • Nobody will maintain the code

    IaC needs owners; plan for it.

  • You need the whole delivery process improved

    See DevOps Services.

Use cases by industry

Infrastructure Automation by industry

The same capability, shaped by the data, rules and users of each sector.

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FAQ

Infrastructure Automation FAQ

Why use infrastructure as code?

Infrastructure as code makes environments repeatable, reviewable and quick to rebuild. Changes go through version control and review, differences between environments disappear, and recovery after a failure takes minutes rather than days.

Should we use Terraform or Ansible?

Use Terraform to create and manage cloud resources such as networks, databases and clusters, and Ansible to configure servers and applications. Many teams use both.

Can you bring our existing infrastructure under code?

Yes. We import existing resources into Terraform or another tool, check that the code matches reality, and then manage all changes through code.

What is configuration drift?

Configuration drift is when real infrastructure changes away from its code definition, usually through manual edits. We set up drift detection so differences are spotted and corrected.

What is policy as code?

Policy as code defines rules, such as no public storage or encryption required, as automated checks that run before infrastructure changes are applied, blocking non-compliant changes.

What is GitOps?

GitOps is managing infrastructure and deployments through Git: the desired state lives in a repository, and automated tools apply changes when pull requests are merged.

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