Infrastructure-as-Code Foundation for Cloud Business Applications

Added Jun 2025 3 design docs

Growing companies routinely discover their cloud environments were assembled by hand — undocumented, unrepeatable, and one resignation away from being unmaintainable. Infrastructure as code is the remedy, and this project practices it by building the foundation of a cloud business platform properly from the start. The intern designs and provisions the platform's infrastructure with Terraform, expressing servers, networks, and services as declarative, version-controlled code that can recreate the environment on demand. Ansible layers on configuration management so every machine converges to a defined state, while Jenkins pipelines automate application build and deployment onto a Kubernetes cluster that handles orchestration, scaling, and recovery. The intern wires the four tools into one coherent workflow — provision, configure, deploy, operate — and documents how a change flows from code commit to running service. The project teaches the intern to treat infrastructure with software engineering discipline: reviewable changes, repeatable environments, and automated promotion. That combination of Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and Kubernetes is among the most requested skill sets in cloud and DevOps job postings.

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