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Infrastructure As Code

10 articles tagged with Infrastructure As Code

Multi-Cloud Strategy in 2026: IaC Wars, FinOps, AI Portability, and the $119 Billion Cloud Market

Multi-cloud is the default enterprise architecture in 2026, with 70 percent of organizations running workloads across multiple providers. This guide covers the cloud market, IaC wars (IBM/HashiCorp, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Crossplane), Kubernetes portability, FinOps, AWS Interconnect - Multicloud, egress costs, NVIDIA NIM for AI portability, the Google/Wiz acquisition, and enterprise deployments.

16 min readMichael Eakins
Cloud ArchitectureMulti-CloudKubernetes+3

The Rise of Platform Engineering: Transforming DevOps in 2026

A comprehensive guide to platform engineering in 2026 covering internal developer platforms, Backstage ecosystem maturity, infrastructure abstraction with Crossplane and Humanitec, developer experience metrics, AI-assisted workflows, security guardrails, FinOps integration, and the organizational patterns that separate successful platform teams from expensive failures.

23Michael Eakins
Platform EngineeringDevOpsCloud Architecture+7

GitHub Actions for Enterprise-Scale CI/CD: Best Practices and Real-World Patterns

Scaling GitHub Actions from single-repo convenience to enterprise CI/CD infrastructure requires architectural patterns most teams learn the hard way. This guide covers reusable workflow design, matrix build optimization, OIDC secret management, self-hosted runner scaling, cost control, and governance patterns used by organizations running thousands of workflows daily.

11 min readMichael Eakins
GitHub ActionsCI/CDDeveloper Productivity+5

Infrastructure as Code in 2026: The Post-Fork Landscape and What Actually Matters

The Infrastructure as Code landscape has fractured and matured since HashiCorp's BSL license change. This guide covers the Terraform vs OpenTofu split, Pulumi's growth to 100M+ downloads, Crossplane's CNCF graduation, the CDKTF deprecation, policy-as-code enforcement, drift detection tooling, AI-assisted IaC, and practical guidance for choosing tools and structuring IaC in 2026.

12 min readMichael Eakins
Infrastructure as CodeTerraformOpenTofu+5