IaaS with Ansible and ServiceNow
In the previous article we showed how organizations can leverage modern automation tools to deliver Storage-as-a-Service on-prem to provide end users with a comparable experience to that of public cloud at a fraction of the cost and with the added benefits of easier security and compliance. The STaaS demo leaves no one indifferent. What we see often happening is that the viewer’s mind starts to extrapolate and comes up with the logical question: "Can I do this with other IT resources?" After all, the IT organization owns more resources than storage and of course, public clouds offers all their services in the same way, directly to the end user through a self-service catalogue The answer is “YES”, it can be done (and it should be done) for other IT resources. For example, a basic offering for everyone should be Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Both IaaS and STaaS were the original services provided by AWS 14 years go and are to this date the bread and butter of public cloud