Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

This track explores the landscape of languages, techniques, tools, and burgeoning ecosystems dealing with the scale of problems we’ve reached today in modern infrastructure.

Modern infrastructure and operations extend beyond the setup and provisioning of machines, data centers, and cloud.  It now includes delivery pipelines, processes, security operations, configuration, policy, compliance management, data management, and more. Correctly automating modern systems has become frustratingly complex and failures have substantial negative consequences. Static text-based data serialization like YAML is falling short of expressivity, and is seldom sufficient. To manage this growing complexity, the declarative approach to configuration has become more and more popular, led by the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) paradigm.

Audience members will learn

• various approaches to Infrastructure as Code from a wide range of industry experts.

• historical and contextual explanations of the problem space of IaC.

• IaC solutions, alongside constraints and tradeoffs.

• deeper understanding of modern system cross-cutting problems and solutions.