DevOps Best Practices Guide for VDC

DevOps - Development Operations - is all about the best tools, practices and guidelines to plan, build, test and release software and services in a fast and reliable manner.

Provided in this guide is a collection of our recommended “best practices” for a DevOps Engineer to make full use of the Servers Australia VDC platform, with links to additional articles.

vApp Templates and Images

The VDC platform has a number of pre-built vApp templates available for you to get started quickly. We’ve provided a combination of SAU-built images running common operating systems such as CentOS and Alma Linux, as well as 100+ common Bitnami images such as Joomla, OpenCart, Redis and WordPress. Can’t find the image you are after? Let us know!


To get started, in your VDC environment navigate to More > App Launchpad.

From here you can search or select from a wide variety of available applications ready-to-deploy.

For an in-depth example, check out our Using App Launchpad with VDC guide.

Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)

Terraform, by Hashicorp, is a powerful utility to create an infrastructure based on code. In a sense, you tell Terraform what infrastructure (including VMs, vApps, Networks and more) you want, it then goes and builds it. Changes to the environment can be processed easily, such as upgrading or downgrading resources like CPU or RAM.

For more information on using Terraform including a ready-made example, refer to our Terraform with VDC guide.