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Cloud infrastructure self-serve model
How Brainboard Helps
Self-serve infrastructure model in Brainboard is an internal service catalog with approved templates, visual design without Terraform knowledge, automatically validated IaC code, and gated workflows with a complete audit trail. Teams provision infrastructure themselves - securely and within standards. DevOps ceases to be a queue and becomes an enabler. All this without the need to learn Terraform from scratch.
People
RBAC and workspace scoping determine who can do what: who can create templates, who can use them, and who can approve deployments. Cloud infrastructure guardrails are built in, not imposed from above. Tribal knowledge disappears - standards are visible to everyone and applied by default. Onboarding new engineers is accelerated: they start with ready-made patterns rather than from scratch.
Tooling
A visual canvas allows you to build architectures by dragging and dropping. Cloud infrastructure services are built on reusable modules with version pinning. IaC is generated automatically - valid from the first time. Inline validation and policy checks are run during the design process: risky configurations are blocked before they reach Git.
Process
The right infrastructure workflow is one in which infrastructure is managed as a product: published, versioned, and measured. DevOps creates templates, tracks their usage, and manages their lifecycle. The workflow plan → review → approve → apply is standardized across the organization. Drift is reduced because everyone works from a single source of truth.
The Challenge
DevOps as a bottleneck - a systemic problem of infrastructure workflow integration. When every deployment goes through a single team, the organization's speed is determined by its throughput. DevOps switches between contexts dozens of times a day, firefighting crowds out strategic work, and ownership is blurred between teams and clouds. The cost of this disorder grows with each new project.
Current State
- Different teams (DevOps, Cloud, Product, FinOps) work in silos, causing delays.
- Product teams lack IaC/Terraform expertise and don’t have time to learn.
- DevOps engineers spend up to 50% of their time supporting other teams.
- Infrastructure knowledge and resources are scattered, with limited reusability.
Business Impact
- Slowed velocity due to dependency on platform/DevOps teams.
- Frequent bottlenecks during provisioning and troubleshooting.
- Inconsistent environments because teams "reinvent the wheel".
- Increased cost & risk, as engineers build manually with limited visibility and governance.
Technical Deep Dive Behind IaC Migration
The infrastructure workflow in Brainboard is built on drag-and-drop composition and preconfigured templates that automatically generate validated IaC. Dependency graphs are built automatically, and variables and policies are enforced. Policy checks are built into every step - you cannot deploy anything that violates security or compliance rules.
Core Concepts
Implementation Process
Monitoring & Governance
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Architecture Overview
Before Brainboard, engineers faced overwhelming complexity: they had to understand Terraform, cloud services, networking, and security simultaneously - without breaking production.Cloud infrastructure solutions Brainboard changes this picture: engineers start with what they already know, and the platform guides them through each step. The visual interface translates complex concepts into understandable blocks. Best practices are built into templates. The entire lifecycle - build, update, and manage - is managed in a single, user-friendly platform, without the need to switch between tools and documentation.
Current Infrastructure
Developers queue up with DevOps for each provisioning. Infrastructure is created manually, without standards or reuse. The result: slow deployments and DevOps that can't keep up with the volume.
Brainboard Platform
DevOps creates reusable, validated templates and publishes them to a secure service catalog - once for the entire organization. CI/CD automatically keeps the catalog up to date.
Provisioned environments
Teams independently provision cloud infrastructure from the catalog without tickets or waiting. Guardrails ensure that only approved, compliant code is deployed to production.
Benefits & Outcomes
85% faster provisioning, 90% faster time to production, 99% template reuse rate. Less toil, fewer incidents, lower support costs with a self-serve infrastructure model.
Faster infrastructure provisioning
Faster go-to-production
Template reuse rate
No more bottlenecks
New teams can ramp up quickly using shared templates — no DevOps support needed.
Enhanced Security
Teams autonomously provision approved, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure with no DevOps in the loop.
Improved Collaboration
A shared catalog and smart tooling align DevOps, engineering, and business teams.
Reduced Technical Debt
Reusable, standardized modules eliminate duplication and inconsistent architectures.
Real-World Success
"Using Brainboard, our team launched a self-serve model in weeks. Engineers now deploy production-ready infrastructure on their own — securely, quickly, and confidently"
Enterprise SaaS Customer
50+ Engineers, Multi-cloud Infrastructure
Your questions, answered.
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