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This article explains how to safely automate Terraform auto-apply using conftest, a policy-as-code tool based on Open Policy Agent, by evaluating Terraform plans deterministically with Rego policies to eliminate human review bottlenecks while maintaining auditability.
The author argues that AI agents in production should be defined as declarative manifests with their own runtime, rather than being scattered across application code, in order to enable proper versioning, observability, and rollback. They present their own solution as an open-source tool.
nixidy is a Nix-based tool for managing Kubernetes GitOps deployments that replaces Helm value files and Kustomize overlays with typed, reproducible Nix expressions. This tutorial walks through setting up a nixidy project with Argo CD, generating plain YAML for review.
ControlBot is an open-source tool that reviews Terraform PRs for NIST 800-53 compliance using Checkov and Cursor SDK, providing inline comments and merge gates.
Mitchell Hashimoto clarifies his personal definition of 'X as Code' as a system of principles or rules rather than equating it to programming, drawing on his experience creating Terraform and the Tao of HashiCorp.