Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically generates parameterized cloud-infrastructure templates that represent cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies. The IaC cloud-infrastructure manager automatically transforms cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files into a set of parameterized cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files and a parameters file that together comprise a parameterized cloud-infrastructure template.

Abstract: An example method for provisioning data volume for a virtual compute instance may include receiving a request to provision a data volume for a virtual compute instance. The request may specify a size of the data volume, a type of the data volume, and a first input/output operations per second (IOPS) value for the data volume. Further, the method may include determining a recommended IOPS value for the data volume by applying a logic to the specified size, the specified type, and the first IOPS value. Furthermore, the method may include provisioning the data volume for the virtual compute instance with the specified size, the specified type, and the recommended IOPS value.

Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system including a graph-based user interface that displays, and that provides for generating and editing, cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files. The IaC cloud-infrastructure-management service or system processes a set of infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files to identify specified resources and relationships between resources. The resources and relationships are then stored as a graph, along with various indices that can be used for quickly searching the graph for relationships and resources of interest. A graph-based user interface allows users to view portions of the graph, navigate through the graph, search for particular resources and relationships, and edit the infrastructure-specification-and-configuration files.

Abstract: The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically compacts, and enhances the manageability of, IaC specification-and-configuration files. In a disclosed implementation, specification-and-configuration files used by a first cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to deploy cloud-based infrastructure in a cloud-computing facility are used by a different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to compact and enhance a parameterized cloud template generated by the different cloud-infrastructure-management service or system to represent the already deployed cloud-based infrastructure. Compaction and manageability enhancement are implemented using control structures and constructs of a template language introduced into the parameterized cloud template.

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems that automatically bind an attribute value, within a resource descriptor in a cloud-infrastructure-specification-and-configuration file, that references a parent resource descriptor via a resource identifier to the resource identifier in the parent resource descriptor. One implementation of attribute-value binding is employed in an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that automatically generates parameterized cloud templates that represent already deployed cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies.