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Infrastructure automation: what it is and how it works

Infrastructure automation explained, from IaC tools to maturity stages, plus why unreliable state is the real risk teams underestimate.

Infrastructure CI/CD Automation

What is ClickOps and how do teams prevent it?

ClickOps slows teams down, introduces drift, and makes infrastructure hard to audit. Learn what ClickOps means in DevOps and how to move beyond it with IaC.

DevOps Infrastructure Terraform

Terraform Automation: From CI/CD to State Locking

Learn how to automate Terraform deployments with CI/CD pipelines, the right tooling, and smarter state management for faster, more reliable infrastructure.

Terraform Automation CI/CD

What Are Ephemeral Environments? A Practical Guide

What ephemeral environments are, how they improve testing workflows, and how to implement them in Kubernetes to speed up deployments and reduce costs.

CI/CD Kubernetes Infrastructure

GitHub changed their API without warning and broke our production system

GitHub shipped a breaking change to workflow_dispatch without warning. It broke Terrateam and probably other systems that haven't noticed yet.

GitHub API Tooling

Announcing the Terrateam REST API

Build custom infrastructure workflows with the Terrateam REST API. Programmatic access to installations, repositories, the KV store, and more.

API Automation Infrastructure

Announcing Terrateam Stacks - Layered and nested infrastructure orchestration

Announcing Terrateam Stacks - orchestrate Terraform deployments with layered and nested stacks, explicit dependencies, and GitOps-native automation.

Terraform GitOps Infrastructure

End-to-End GitOps: Terraform for Infrastructure, ArgoCD for Application Delivery

Implement complete GitOps with a Terraform-ArgoCD integration - Terraform provisioning infrastructure and ArgoCD automating Kubernetes deployments.

AWS Eks Automation

Provisioning Google Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform (GKE Cluster Example)

Build GKE cluster with Terraform, automate deployments through GitHub Actions, and implement WIF to remove long-lived credentials from your CI/CD pipeline.

Terraform GitHub Gke

Building a CI/CD Pipeline for Terraform with GitHub Actions

A step-by-step guide on Terraform automation using GitHub Actions, focusing on building a CI/CD Pipeline for Terraform.

Terraform GitHub CI/CD

Terraform Cloud vs. Stategraph Orchestration: GitOps Workflows Compared

A deep comparison of Terraform Cloud and Stategraph Orchestration for infrastructure teams adopting GitOps workflows, including pricing, architecture, and use case fit.

Terraform GitHub GitOps

Managing Terraform Modules at Scale

Learn how to design, version, and automate Terraform modules for long-term maintainability. Covers module organization, lifecycle management, security patterns, and migration strategies for production infrastructure.

Terraform Infrastructure As Code Modules

TACOS are a commodity

Terraform automation tools shouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

Terraform Automation Infrastructure

Minimalist GitHub Actions: Your workflows should do less

Learn how to make your GitHub Actions do less

GitHub Automation Tooling

Terrateam Open Source

Terrateam is now open source

GitHub Open Source Compliance

Understanding Terraform Null Resource: What It Does & How to Use It

A guide to understanding Terraform's null resource, its use cases, and how to implement it for automation without creating infrastructure.

Terraform Infrastructure GitHub

Announcing Centralized Configuration

Streamlining Infrastructure Automation with Terrateam’s Centralized Configuration

Infrastructure Security Compliance

Running Terraform Locally

How to run Terraform locally on your workstation

Terraform Infrastructure OpenTofu

Automating Terraform: Terrateam vs. GitHub Actions

How Terrateam compares to standalone GitHub Actions for Terraform Automation

GitHub Terraform Automation

Launching Without a GUI

Why we chose to launch Terrateam with Pull Requests as the only UI

GitHub Terraform Automation