Niklas Werker & Norris

Eclipse Che for Infrastructure Automation

Stop treating infrastructure as a second-class citizen. Give your IaC the professional development tools it deserves.

Eclipse Che for Infrastructure Automation
#1about 2 minutes

Bridging the tooling gap in infrastructure as code

Infrastructure as code often lacks the sophisticated development tools used in software engineering, creating a need for standardized environments.

#2about 3 minutes

Comparing local and remote cloud development environments

Moving from a local machine setup to containerized remote environments provides consistency, faster onboarding, and improved security.

#3about 1 minute

Structuring development with inner and outer loops

Splitting work into a high-velocity inner loop for development and a quality-gated outer loop for compliance balances speed with stability.

#4about 3 minutes

Building a remote Ansible environment with Eclipse Che

A complete remote development environment can be built using Eclipse Che, devfiles for configuration, and integrated Ansible tools for testing and linting.

#5about 1 minute

Defining workspaces with devfile versus dev containers

Both devfiles and dev containers define development environments as code, but devfiles offer additional features like declarative task definitions for IDE integration.

#6about 4 minutes

Exploring the core features and patterns of Eclipse Che

Eclipse Che provides a Kubernetes-native cloud development environment with features like IDE integration, air-gap support, and patterns for dynamic test infrastructure.

#7about 3 minutes

Demo: Launching a pre-configured Ansible workspace

A devfile in a Git repository can automatically launch a complete VS Code-based IDE in the browser with all necessary extensions and language support pre-installed.

#8about 4 minutes

Demo: Test-driven development with Ansible Molecule

Use Ansible Molecule and declarative tasks to automatically spin up, test against, and tear down dynamic infrastructure directly from the IDE.

#9about 2 minutes

Demo: Generating playbooks with Ansible Lightspeed AI

Ansible Lightspeed provides an integrated AI assistant that generates and explains playbooks from natural language prompts, accelerating development and understanding.

#10about 1 minute

Key takeaways for modernizing infrastructure automation

Adopting declarative development environments is the key to closing the tooling gap and bringing modern software practices to infrastructure as code.

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