IaCConf 2026
as the organisers put it
IaCConf 2026 is the second year of the community-driven virtual IaC conference featuring IaC experts and practitioners.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to | Gareth Kersey | 05m |
Virtual conference launches with 3,000 attendees and a theme called Keeping Pace that centers on AI-driven acceleration of code and infrastructure. Platform… | ||
| Keynote: AI Speaks Terraform Like a Tourist | Corey Quinn | 35m |
AI produces Terraform that is syntactically fine but often wrong — about 30% broken — because it trains on Stack Overflow, old tutorials and vendor docs so it… | ||
| AI's Disruption of Infrastructure Operations | Matt Gowie | 36m |
Company experience at MasterPoint shows a client (Cursor) cuts Terraform plan times from 10–14 minutes to under 2 minutes — an 80% reduction — by reorganizing… | ||
| Adding AI to Your IaC Workflow Without Starting Over | Emin Alemdar, Flavius Dinu | 34m |
Spacelift Intent is an open-source MCP server that provisions cloud resources by calling OpenTofu/Terraform provider APIs directly — no HCL, plan, or apply —… | ||
| Replace Terraform Module Forks with Automatic Policy Transformation Rules | Anton Babenko | 35m |
Claims that teams can eliminate the fork graveyard by replacing module forks with automatic policy transformations that rewrite modules at download time… | ||
| Platform Engineering in the Age of AI Teammates | Luca Galante, Chris Hesse, Faisal Afzal, Eric Maxwell | 38m |
Panel argues that existing platform practices still win but must become machine-readable contracts (not just README advice); shows concrete infra: a… | ||
| Why 10x Code Velocity Means 10x Operational Risk Without Preparation | Amin Astaneh | 33m |
LLMs break the old coding bottleneck, producing a “code tsunami” that multiplies risk: DORA math plus a 0–15% change failure rate means 10 deploys a day → one… | ||
| I Deleted 4,000 Lines of AWS CDK and Shipped Faster | Joseph Goksu | 31m |
A solo hobby SaaS removes about 4,000 lines of AWS CDK — 17 stacks, six GitHub Actions workflows and 1,100 lines of bespoke Go — and replaces them with one… | ||
| How to Safely Deploy AI Agents that Write and Manage your IaC | Davlet Dzhakishev | 36m |
Two years of production experience shows AI agents can safely manage IaC only when they run inside a centralized agent runtime with sandboxing, durable… | ||
| Infrastructure at Scale Using ArgoCD | Nitish Mane | 34m |
Manages 50+ clusters across AWS, OCI, GCP with a hub-and-spoke architecture where a control-plane Argo CD (created via Terraform) provisions clusters with… | ||
| How DevOps Friction Turns into Real Products | Serena Chechile, Chris Evans, Ganesh Datta, Vlad Matsiiako | 35m |
Panelists argue the marginal cost to prototype internal tools is now near zero but long tail maintenance and interoperability are the real costs; an incident… | ||
| The AI Readiness Gap: When Adoption Comes Before Governance | Dimitri Vlachos | 35m |
Survey of 406 infrastructure practitioners finds 90% of developers use AI but only 32% of infrastructure teams have AI deeply embedded across workflows, and… | ||
| Scaling Platform Engineering Without Slowing Developers Down | Jean Burellier | 36m |
Practical recipe: adopt CDK Terrain with TypeScript typing, treat IaC as an API, and publish modules in a catalog/IDP with versioning, tests and scaffolding… | ||
| Closing: | Gareth Kersey, Kyler Middleton | 08m |
Closing highlights claim concrete shifts: Have a human read the change plans every time, because Terraform and AI can produce dangerous diffs; a new… | ||
| The Problems We're Here to Solve | Anton Babenko, Jean Burellier, Matt Gowie, Amin Astaneh, Nitish Mane | 02m |
Platform teams report an AI code tsunami producing an order‑of‑magnitude more code, creating a gap between velocity and quality and making human adoption the… | ||
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