The Evolution of Infrastructure as Code so far - 2024 Edition

The Evolution of Infrastructure as Code so far - 2024 Edition

How to implement infrastructure as code? Ashish spoke to Armon Dadgar. Co-Founder and CTO at HashiCorp at Hashidays London. Armon speaks about his journey from co-creating Terraform, the first open-source language in the IaC space, to addressing the complex challenges enterprises face in cloud environments today. They speak about why having a platform team from the beginning is crucial for large enterprises, the evolution of IaC, the importance of standardization in managing cloud applications, and how automation plays a key role in maintaining security.


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Questions asked:

00:00 Introduction

01:54 A bit about Armon

02:32 How has infrastructure as code evolved?

03:43 The role of Terraform

04:38 Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management

06:51 Best Practice for Infrastructure Lifecycle Management

09:11 Best Practice for Security Lifecycle Management

09:38 What is a Platform Team?

11:02 When should people start thinking about a platform team?

13:02 What is Zero Trust?

14:52 Challenges with IaC

17:35 How GenAI is impacting IaC?

20:04 Starting an open source project?

24:53 The Fun Section

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