The IaC Tooling Multiverse and the Future of Platform Engineering
summary
Infrastructure as code becomes the way to stop ad hoc 2 a.m. fixes from drifting across prod and DR, and there is no one winner — Terraform remains the industry standard but has no state encryption by default, OpenTofu is a CNCF drop‑in replacement with newly added state encryption, and Pulumi lets teams use real languages but lacks easy self‑hosted state. The recommended approach is mixed tooling per use case, wired into CI (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), cost checks like infracost and policy gates like Open Policy Agent.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to IaC
- 1:49Problems before IaC
- 4:22Rise of infrastructure as code
- 5:46Choosing the right IaC tool
- 7:11IaC tooling battleground
- 10:23Using multiple IaC tools
- 11:04Infrastructure as code maturity
- 12:08Unified DevOps process
- 13:52Summary and future approach
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