[This video comes from the LondonIAC meetup run by Dennis McCarthy.]

If you can - doesn't mean you should: lessons from Terraforming Clouds - Natalie Godec.

We all love automation; the fewer steps needed to get something deployed - the better. Even if it means abstraction layer on top of abstraction layer - we all love our abstraction layers. Terraform, modules, wrappers and orchestration tools allow for an increasingly more sophisticated code - but where do you draw the line?

In this talk, we will explore the boundaries of infrastructure as code and look for the balance between abstraction and maintainability.

My personal view: There were some great takeaways from this talk. Especially on standardising how you do things and single points of deployments. Watching this video could save you from making mistakes as you grow your environment and will get you thinking about you own workflows and how you work.


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