Tag: infrastructure as code

Configuration Drift in a Multi-Cloud World

Mariusz Michalowski | June 29, 2026 | cloud infrastructure, configuration drift, infrastructure as code, multicloud, opentofu, Terraform

Configuration drift is the gap between the infrastructure state declared in code and the state actually running in your environment. It occurs when resources are changed outside of your infrastructure as code ...

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Risk-Based Review for Infrastructure as Code Pull Requests

Naga Krishna Reddy Muppidi | June 5, 2026 | automated review systems, blast radius analysis, change approval workflow, change management, CI/CD governance, cloud infrastructure, Cloud Security, deployment risk, deployment safety, devops, devsecops, Engineering Governance, engineering productivity, gitops, IaC review, infrastructure as code, infrastructure auditing, infrastructure automation, infrastructure change tracking, infrastructure compliance, infrastructure controls, infrastructure delivery, Infrastructure Governance, infrastructure observability, infrastructure reliability, infrastructure risk scoring, infrastructure security, operational risk management, platform engineering, platform operations, platform team workflows, policy as code, production changes, production deployments, pull request review, reviewer fatigue, reviewer workflows, risk assessment, risk-based review, security review automation

Not every infrastructure pull request deserves the same review path. A tag change in a development account and a network-policy change in production should not create identical reviewer load. When every change ...

We Spent 15 Years Automating Infrastructure. Now We’re Automating Decisions

Alan Shimel | May 20, 2026 | AI copilots, AI in operations, AIOps, Autonomous operational systems, cloud-native architecture, Deterministic vs probabilistic automation, devops evolution, gitops, IaC, Incident response AI, infrastructure as code, infrastructure automation, Operational judgment, Operational sovereignty, Platform engineering governance, Risk mitigation in AI, telemetry correlation

As DevOps shifts from deterministic infrastructure automation to AI-driven probabilistic judgment, organizations face a profound transition from automating tasks to automating operational reasoning. Discover why this requires a fundamental evolution in platform ...

Beyond the Build: Integrating Security into CI/CD Pipelines

Michelle Buckner | May 7, 2026 | application security, CI/CD, devsecops, infrastructure as code, SCA

In today's fast-paced software development landscape, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are essential for delivering applications efficiently. However, the speed and automation they offer can inadvertently introduce security vulnerabilities if ...

How to Manage Operations in DevOps Using Modern Technology

Samuel Ogbonna | April 23, 2026 | AIOps, infrastructure as code, observability, platform engineering, site reliability engineering

How modern DevOps teams manage operations using automation, observability, AIOps and self-service to reduce toil and improve reliability ...

Can Claude Agents Replace DevOps Teams? A Practical Reality Check

Sannan Ali | April 20, 2026 | adaptive systems, Agentic Workflows, AIOps, automated deployments, Autonomous DevOps, Claude agents, devops evolution, human-in-the-loop, incident response automation, infrastructure as code

Are AI agents replacing DevOps engineers? Explore how tools like Claude are shifting DevOps from rigid automation to autonomous, adaptive systems, and why human judgment remains the critical link in managing system ...

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If it Isn’t Code, it’s Just Advice

In the world of AI coding, success hinges on code-native solutions that integrate and verify changes directly in the codebase. Many AI tools fail by relying on external dashboards, lacking the reproducibility ...

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Policy as Code for Cost Control, Not Just Compliance

Mariusz Michalowski | March 18, 2026 | cloud cost management, FinOps, infrastructure as code, kubernetes, platform engineering, policy as code

Policy as code can do more than enforce compliance. Learn how platform teams use guardrails, tagging and sizing policies to prevent cloud cost waste early ...

Microsoft Azure Skills Plugin Gives AI Coding Agents a Playbook for Cloud Deployment

Tom Smith | March 11, 2026 | agent orchestration, AI coding agents, AI in software delivery, Azure automation, Azure cost optimization, Azure Skills Plugin, Claude Code, cloud deployment, devops, Foundry MCP, GitHub Copilot, guardrails, infrastructure as code, institutional knowledge, MCP Server, Microsoft Azure, platform engineering, VS Code agent plugins

Microsoft’s new Azure Skills Plugin closes the gap between AI-written code and production deployments by packaging expert Azure knowledge as executable skills, backed by MCP servers for real infrastructure actions and AI ...