IaC Insights
IaC Insights is a newsletter by Matt Gowie and the Masterpoint team focused on delivering actionable advice and best practices in the Infrastructure as Code ecosystem.
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IaC code can either use inheritance or composition to add functionality. Which is the better path?
Or, a story about Bob.
Thoughts on uptake of IaC
Agentic IaC is splitting into tools that bolt guardrails onto the infrastructure as code you already have, and tools that are ripping up the substrate entirely.
If your Terraform or OpenTofu plans feel mysteriously slow on AWS, the culprit might be how you handle DNS records. It's easy to miss.
Dynamic prevent_destroy values make it easier to manage resources like databases with IaC.
AI just made your app engineers faster, but now your CI/CD, IaC, and security guardrails need to catch up.
A three tiered approach to this fundamental question.
You need good repo context, GitOps driven IaC, and an agent skill. That’s it.
AI is making infrastructure faster to deploy. And destroy.
Are you running the zizmor project on your GitHub Actions YAML?
One of the biggest bottlenecks in IaC at scale is plan review.
How the minimumReleaseAge Renovate configuration can save you pain.
Don’t manage your AWS ECS deployments with IaC.
Not all Terraform or OpenTofu providers are built equally.
