Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code, Security Blind Spots, and the Messy Reality of DevOps
I’ve spent most of my career in infrastructure and reliability engineering, from years as an SRE at Google to leading teams at Facebook and now building Spacelift. Along the way, I’ve watched ...
ControlMonkey Adds AI Agents to Infrastructure Automation Platform
ControlMonkey today added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its infrastructure automation platform that promise to make it simpler for almost any developer to securely provision infrastructure as code (IaC). Company CEO Aharon ...
Pulumi Previews AI Agents Trained to Automate Infrastructure Management
Pulumi today revealed it is now making available in preview a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its namesake infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform that are capable of diagnosing issues and autonomously completing ...
The Right Kind of AI for Infrastructure as Code
AI is everywhere in cloud security right now. Nearly every product claims to be “AI-powered,” and copilots and chatbots promise to help teams interpret issues faster. But for most platform teams, understanding ...
AI-Driven Drift Detection in AWS: Terraform Meets Intelligence
Configuration drift, the divergence of deployed infrastructure from its source-defined configuration, has emerged as a critical vulnerability, particularly within the complex AWS environments I've managed, orchestrated by infrastructure as code (IaC) tools ...
Hybrid Infrastructure Is a Mess—But It Doesn’t Have to Be
If you're a CIO who is managing hybrid infrastructure, you're like the peace-keeper in a dysfunctional family. On one side, you’ve got the old-school on-prem team—practical, cost-conscious, maybe a little stubborn. On ...
The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece
If you work in DevOps, you’ve heard it a thousand times: “Do more with less.” More automation, more security, more reliability—but with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep ...
The Basics of Infrastructure as Code: A Primer for DevOps
IaC changes the way IT operations and development teams collaborate to create, provision and manage infrastructure and applications. This short introduction explains its benefits ...
Mind the Shift: Answering Common Questions About OpenTofu
A lead contributor to OpenTofu answers the (truly) frequently asked questions about the open source project ...
What OpenTofu 1.7 Means for DevSecOps
With built-in end-to-end encryption, OpenTofu is a natural DevSecOps fit ...
The Problems With Golden Templates That No One Wants to Talk About
Golden templates make it easier to get started with IaC, but they don’t effectively fit users’ needs. Let’s fix that ...
IBM Confirms: It’s Buying HashiCorp
Everyone knew HashiCorp was attempting to find a buyer. Few suspected it would be IBM ...

