From Manual Setup to Repeatable Infrastructure Deployment

A growing technology business needed its infrastructure delivery to keep pace with its development work. Engineers were deploying servers, configuring networks and preparing tools through repeated manual steps across multiple environments.

The business needed an approach that its team could maintain and reuse as requirements changed. Innovacloud took responsibility for connecting the infrastructure configuration with the process used to deploy it.

Every deployment depended on several pieces working together: a prepared build agent, the correct software, the right environment settings and the infrastructure configuration itself. Automating one task would leave the team dealing with the other dependencies manually.

Separate pipeline definitions also meant common changes had to be repeated in several places. The challenge was to create a reusable deployment process while retaining the settings each environment required.

Innovacloud translated server and networking tasks into Terraform code, making the required infrastructure explicit and repeatable.

We developed YAML pipelines that prepared build agents and installed Terraform and other prerequisites automatically. Shared templates brought common steps into one maintained structure, while environment-specific settings allowed the workflow to serve different deployments.

Azure DevOps orchestrated the YAML pipelines, while Ansible applied consistent server configuration after Terraform provisioned resources. PowerShell checks prepared self-hosted build agents and validated prerequisites before each run, separating infrastructure provisioning from system configuration.

By addressing the code, execution environment and pipeline together, we gave the engineering team a complete deployment process that could be reused and extended.