As cloud infrastructure grows in complexity, ensuring safe and reliable deployments has become critical. Making infrastructure as Code (IaC) changes without proper validation can lead to costly outages and security risks. Testing IaC is no longer optional, it’s essential for guaranteeing successful rollouts.

This session explores how standard development and testing best practices can be applied to infrastructure engineering. We’ll demonstrate how to write effective tests for IaC using OpenTofu, and how Localstack can dramatically shorten feedback loops by simulating AWS services locally. Attendees will learn practical techniques to validate infrastructure changes before they reach production, reducing risk and improving confidence in deployments.

Key takeaways:
- Why testing IaC is critical for reliability and agility.
- How to apply proven software testing principles to infrastructure code.
- Hands-on examples of testing OpenTofu configurations.
- Leveraging Localstack for fast, local feedback without the need for an AWS environment

If you manage infrastructure or develop IaC, this talk will equip you with actionable strategies to make testing a first-class citizen in your workflow.

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.