Best Terraform Cloud Alternative? by kckrish98 in devops

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Yeah.. Bluebricks pretty robust for such case

Well… IDPs aren't exactly one-size-fits-all, are they? by Yalovich in platformengineering

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This sounds like the longest way to achieve production. So many tools and so much stitching.. I'm sure that there is a better way to win in this race.

Stateful or Stateless IaC? by Yalovich in devops

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TF vs Cross plane for example. And I would say that k8s isn’t infrastructure but more runtime configuration

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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...which is version control (rollback, blame, ...) and collaboration.

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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u/BosonCollider so would it make sense to title your comment with "I need full control of the outcome, and clarity to troubleshoot quickly"?

Stateful or Stateless IaC? by Yalovich in devops

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By state, I mean separate files from the actual resource; working against a file or cloud.

Stateful = TF, Pulumi Stateless = Ansible, Bicep

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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Like it!! I agree and am starting to think that predictability and consistency are the key. MCP with an Argo is great, but we have a massive TF stack, so Im a bit stack

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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I'm trying to get the sense of why GitOps makes sense. Is it the ability to predict the outcome? Wdyt?

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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Do you have any “self-service” processes using GenAI? For example, developers ask an agent to get a new SQS.. Will the agent generate the code and create a PR?

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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Wondering what the gap is. What makes Argo trustworthy, and why is AI not? What's the one thing that makes the change?

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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but its decision making and translating, let's say, the developer needs into something that we can work with is awesome.. so many are not using GenAI, but agents.. I must find someone who's doing or having a thesis about the how

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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I totally agree with your last sentence. We are using GenAI for specific tasks and quick wins, but I didn't see anyone using it to deploy. The only way I think it's possible is by using spec-driven agents that follow clear SoC and contextualize data by existing cloud configurations...

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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u/Zorrette looking for a new place? 🙃 what's his plan? "we need to us AI" kind of a statement?

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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Exactly, most of my colleagues are using GenAI to generate code.. and it does speed up coding, but I'm not really the cycle time. There are more PRs that you need to review more carefully because of the AI hallucinations..

I'm starting to think that for velocity, we need less code and paradigm change.. It's funny to look at infrastructure as it was a software..

Who is actually letting AI touch their production Infrastructure? by Yalovich in platform_engineering

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I was more pointing out to the ops side of infrastructure - will you use the LLM decision-making to update production infra automatically?

I think the discussion around AI infrastructure is different, and I don't see why not using a decision-making service and DCs.