Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has emerged as the backbone of modern DevOps practice, transforming how organizations manage infrastructure. Rather than clicking through countless console screens, a process prone to human error and undocumented changes, teams now write declarative configuration files that describe exactly what their infrastructure should look like. Applying these files provisions or updates environments consistently, eliminating config drift and ensuring every deployment matches the version in source control.

IaC enables any environment to be able to be recreated identically. If nodes fail or regions go offline, teams can redeploy in minutes, reducing provisioning time from days or weeks to minutes and hours. The time it takes to spin up app stacks becomes a single pipeline, letting teams collaboratively iterate rapidly and scale on demand without clickops bottlenecks. By codifying infrastructure, every stakeholder—developers, ops, security, and leadership—can see exactly how systems are configured. This transparency fosters trust, reduces miscommunication, and streamlines cross-team collaboration.

We work deeply with teams to help facilitate this shift. Our Embedded DevOps Pods and Adaptive Engagements are prepared to help your company transition to IaC. Our teams are equipped to work side-by-side with client teams to shift infrastructure onto IaC, which allows us to deliver environments, patches, and optimizations rapidly without manual bottlenecks.

We’ve worked with organizations to help follow best practices at every stage:

• A startup relied on a single engineer’s manual cloud configs. Once they left, no one had a working understanding of the infrastructure that led to costly downtime. They used our Adaptive Engagement services to quickly pick themselves back up off their feet. 

• A large company had significant blind spots due to relying on manual console changes, leading to critical misconfigurations during audits. We helped define their network policies to create clear auditable trails of policy changes. 

We’re excited to power the next frontier for IaC with deeper automation powered by AI. Forge has developed the first coding agents purpose built for reasoning across an entire IaC corpus, serving as “pair-programmers for DevOps engineers,” helping companies accelerate infrastructure delivery while following best practices and maintaining reliability and security.

With IaC, we can layer AI-driven analytics and suggestions onto it, serving as a way for teams to interact with their infrastructure in plain English. Forge is equipped with the ability to analyze teams’ Terraform state or cloud metrics and propose optimizations (right-sizing, cost savings, or security tweaks), combining context across a team’s traditional suite of integrations and tools. Jump immediately from suggestions to fix CI/CD pipelines to asking Forge to apply these recommendations directly. Forge will create pull requests that can be reviewed and applied automatically, closing the loop between insight and action.

The shift to IaC is imperative for companies that value speed, consistency, and control. By codifying environments, organizations eliminate manual drift, reduce errors, and empower teams to iterate rapidly. When combined with GitOps, policy-as-code, and Forge, IaC is a step towards self-healing, auditable, and secure systems. If you’re interested in how a shift to IaC can help you scale securely and resiliently, contact us.