2 posts tagged with "IaC"

Docker, Inc. has announced At DockerCon 2023, with partners Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama, that they launched a new framework aimed at simplifying the process of building applications infused with artificial intelligence (AI) using containers.

The framework, called Docker AI, provides developers with automated guidance and context-specific recommendations to help them define and troubleshoot all aspects of AI application development. Additionally, Docker has partnered with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama to create a GenAI Stack, which includes pre-configured Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools to streamline AI/ML integration, making it more accessible to developers.

With these initiatives, Docker aims to make AI application development a team sport, involving data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and traditional developers.

According to the 2023 Thales Data Threat Report, 55% of organizations experiencing a data breach have reported “human error” as the primary cause. This is further compounded by organizations now facing attacks from increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals with a wide range of automated tools.

As organizations move more of their operations to the cloud, they must also become increasingly aware of the security risks and threats that come with it. It’s not enough anymore to simply have a set of policies that human operators must follow. Today more proactive and automated strategies must be implemented. This is where Infrastructure as Code (IaC) can play a pivotal role.

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Infrastructure as Code is a key practice in the world of DevOps that involves managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files or scripts rather than relying on physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. To put it simply, IaC is the process of managing your IT infrastructure — servers, networks and databases — using code, much like software.