A Secure and Scalable Infrastructure as Code Framework for Automated Cloud Provisioning and Management

Author(s)	Mr. Polaka Chandra Sekhar Reddy, Ms. Shaik Sadiya Banu, Ms. Gampala Yogitha, Ms. Shaik Sanheera
Country	India
Abstract	The management of cloud infrastructure in multi-cloud environments necessitates automation, scalability and security that exceed traditional cloud finance and operations. This paper presents and proposes a secure and scalable practive, infrastructure as code (IaC) framework that leverages Terraform for provisioning, Ansible for configuration, and CI/CD pipelines that leverage Jenkins and GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployment. The framework integrates HashiCorp Vault for enhanced security, along with Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch for observability. The IaC code is versioned in Git for visibility, traceability and collaboration, and rightsizing strategies and resource usage detection minimize cost. A prototype deployment on AWS reduced provisioning time by 42%, decreased human errors in manual configurations by 63%, and improved system availability, demonstrating the efficiency and scalability of the framework for 21st century cloud operations.
Keywords	Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Automation, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Vault, Prometheus, CloudWatch, DevOps, Cloud Security
Field	Engineering
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-04-24

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