DevOps & SRE Vibe: AWS, Prometheus & Infrastructure

Modern development extends beyond writing code to include infrastructure management, monitoring, and operational excellence. Your IDE can become a comprehensive DevOps workstation, integrating with cloud platforms, monitoring systems, and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in the IDE

AWS Toolkit Integration

VS Code AWS Extension:

# View AWS resources directly in the IDE
# Access CloudWatch logs
# Deploy Lambda functions
# Manage S3 buckets and EC2 instances

Terraform/CDK Development:

// Write infrastructure code with full IDE support
// Auto-completion for AWS resources
// Syntax validation and error checking
// Resource documentation on hover

Writing Infrastructure Code

Terraform with IDE Support:

# Terraform configuration with IntelliSense
# Resource validation and planning
# State file management
# Module development and testing

AI for Ops Tasks

AWS Infrastructure Generation

AI-Generated CDK Scripts:

// AI Prompt: "Generate an AWS CDK script to provision a serverless API using API Gateway and Lambda"
// AI creates complete infrastructure definitions

Prometheus Query Generation

AI-Generated PromQL:

# AI Prompt: "Write a PromQL query to calculate 99th percentile request latency"
# AI generates optimized monitoring queries

Grafana Dashboard Configuration

AI-Generated Dashboard JSON:

// AI Prompt: "Create a Grafana dashboard panel for displaying request latency metrics"
// AI generates complete dashboard configurations

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