The IaC Tooling Face-off for Modern Cloud Native Ops
summary
Compares Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK, Helm, ArgoCD and serverless with concrete tradeoffs: Terraform is industry standard but vendor locked and historically stores state/plaintext secrets; OpenTofu is a CNCF drop‑in that adds state encryption; Pulumi/ CDK let teams use real languages while Pulumi keeps state in its backend; serverless simplifies Lambda packaging so env0 pairs it with Terraform for other infra. Shows use of Open Policy Agent for policy as code, Checkov for static plan scans, unit tests in Terraform 1.6 / OpenTofu, and a code‑generation path to migrate click‑ops to IaC.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Why infrastructure as code
- 5:20History of IaC tools
- 8:35IaC tool comparison
- 12:53Choosing the right tool
- 14:41Organization maturity levels
- 17:52Policy and security tools
- 20:23OpenTofu vs Terraform
- 21:27Generating IaC from resources
- 22:53Drift control tips
- 23:57Testing IaC
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