Infrastructure management has shifted dramatically. In today’s era, it’s no longer just about provisioning servers—it’s about operating complex, distributed systems at scale. Validating changes, avoiding risky deployments, and coping with long feedback loops when something goes wrong has become increasingly difficult to do.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the standard for managing these complex environments, and Terraform is the language of choice for defining infrastructure across clouds. But here’s the key insight: IaC is still code. That means we can—and should—apply proven software development practices to make infrastructure management safer, faster, and more predictable.

In this talk, you’ll learn:
Why infrastructure teams need to think like developers.
How testing, CI/CD, and version control can reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
Practical strategies for validating changes before they hit production.
How to shorten feedback loops and bring agility to infrastructure operations.

If you’re a developer or an operations engineer navigating the complexity of cloud scale systems, this session will show you how to leverage the discipline of software engineering to master infrastructure at scale. Because when infrastructure becomes code, the rules of software development apply.

This talk will combine a slide deck with live demos showcasing Terraform testing capabilities. The target audience are platform, infrastructure, or devops engineers and software developers.

Target audience: infrastructure engineers, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, general operations personnel and software engineers with an interest in infrastructure.

The typical duration of this session is 45-60 minutes.