[outworlder]

Spinning up new infra: Jenkins crafts Terraform tfvars based on user input, runs plan, asks for confirmation, applies. Terraform state and vars saved to S3. Chef and Ansible for provisioning.

"Documentation", in terms of where stuff is deployed and what is deployed is not really necessary. We save this data to a DynamoDB table, query-able by AWS Lambda functions, so other automation can pick it up and devops can query data.

Documentation on how things work comes from dev teams, on how things are deployed indeed comes from us, just simple wiki pages.

Services running in Kubernetes, K8s worker instances in auto-scaling groups. If one node dies it is killed and brought up, K8s will reschedule the pods. Same for the pods themselves.

Monitoring through Nagios(getting phased out finally), NewRelic and Prometheus. Basic ELK stack for centralized logs.

Thinking about rolling out Vault for credential management. Chatops on the pipeline (getting pieces in place first, like the db mentioned earlier)

I'm trying to get the company on board on immutable infrastructure, but it is proving difficult.