Things I Wish I Knew Before Building My Own IT Infrastructure

How I Got Here Building a startup is hard these days. Building a tech startup is even harder. My niche is Cloud and DevOps, so from the very beginning I wanted Platform as a Service to be part of my offering. Naturally, I also needed a place where I could test the services I wanted to sell. So we decided to build our own datacenter . Looking back, I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. The funny thing is that I’m about 7 months in , and sometimes it feels like nothing really moved forward. We still don’t have anything publicly available yet. But that’s a story for another post. For now, I’d like to share some of the less obvious mistakes I made while building a self-hosted IT infrastructure. Hopefully they’ll save someone else a few headaches. Infrastructure as Code… and Coding Everything Yes, you heard that right. These days everyone talks about Infrastructure as Code , Terraform, automation, pipelines, and writing code for every piece of infrastructure. It’s cool. I