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Announcing Gatekeeper - Manual Approval Gates

Add manual approval gates for failed checks, enabling human judgment when automated validations flag issues

Infrastructure Terraform Security

Platform Engineering Meets GitOps: Enabling Self-Service Infrastructure for Developers

Learn how platform engineering and GitOps workflows with Terraform enable self-service infrastructure provisioning.

Platform Engineering GitOps Terraform

Using LLMs to Generate Terraform Code - 2025 Update

An in-depth analysis using Claude, ChatGPT, and Mistral

Terraform Infrastructure IaC

Building Secure and Maintainable Terraform Modules

Learn how to structure Terraform modules for long-term maintainability, apply security best practices, and handle updates without breaking production. Covers versioning strategies, the moved block, migration patterns, and secure secret management.

Terraform Infrastructure As Code Modules

AI in Infrastructure as Code: Justin O'Connor on Accelerating the Right Way

Justin O'Connor, Director at KPMG and Founder at Onward Platforms, on why AI will create more code, not fewer engineers, and the critical balance between speed and expertise.

Terraform AI Infrastructure

AI in Infrastructure as Code: Kief Morris on Navigating the Limits of Automation

Kief Morris, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, shares insights on balancing AI's speed with infrastructure consistency, reliability, and governance.

Terraform AI Infrastructure

AI in Infrastructure as Code: Petar Nikov on Avoiding AI Pitfalls

Petar Nikov, founder of Cloud Solutions, shares why AI should accelerate, not replace, infra decisions, and how teams can build better guardrails around speed.

Terraform AI Infrastructure

Progressive Delivery Best Practices with Continuous Deployment

A technical guide to implementing safe deployment strategies like canary releases, blue-green deployments, and feature flags in enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

CI/CD GitOps Deployment

Shifting Left: Embedding Security in Your Infrastructure as Code Pipeline

A hands-on guide to embedding security checks, secret scanning, and policy-as-code into your Terraform and GitOps workflows using tools like OPA, Conftest, and GitLeaks.

Terraform GitOps Security

GitOps Beyond Kubernetes: Applying GitOps Principles to Infrastructure as Code

A technical guide for DevOps and platform teams looking to extend GitOps practices to Terraform-based infrastructure workflows, including CI/CD setup, policy enforcement, and tool comparisons.

Terraform Infrastructure GitOps

GitOps for Heroku Using Terraform and Terrateam

A step-by-step guide to managing Heroku infrastructure with GitOps.

GitHub Terraform GitOps

How to Use GitOps with Terraform: A Real-World Guide

A practical guide to structuring Terraform workflows with GitOps, GitHub Actions, and short-lived credentials, without glue code or magic.

Terraform GitHub GitOps