Best of IaC — February 2026

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    Article
    Avatar of pulumiPulumi·15w

    The Claude Skills I Actually Use for DevOps

    Claude Skills package engineering expertise into reusable instructions that teach AI agents domain-specific patterns and best practices. Unlike MCPs which provide tools, skills encode workflows and judgment—teaching Claude to write production-ready infrastructure code with proper security contexts, monitoring, OIDC credentials, and deployment patterns. The article demonstrates 14+ community and official Pulumi skills covering TypeScript infrastructure, Kubernetes hardening, systematic debugging, security review, incident response, and SRE practices. Skills are portable markdown files that avoid context pollution through progressive disclosure, activating only when relevant. Security vetting is critical as 13.4% of public skills contain vulnerabilities.

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    Video
    Avatar of codeheadCodeHead·15w

    Concepts EVERY DevOps Engineer Should Know

    A comprehensive overview of 10 essential DevOps concepts ranging from foundational to advanced topics. Covers version control workflows (Git Flow vs trunk-based), CI/CD deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), cloud fundamentals, container optimization with Docker, Kubernetes orchestration, monitoring vs observability (metrics, logs, traces), configuration management with Ansible, infrastructure as code with Terraform, immutable infrastructure patterns, and GitOps declarative deployments. Includes real-world examples from Netflix, Spotify, and Google demonstrating how these concepts impact deployment speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.

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    Article
    Avatar of octopusdeployOctopusDeploy·13w

    4 ways to use Argo CD and Terraform together

    Four integration patterns for combining Argo CD and Terraform in production GitOps workflows are explored, addressing the common challenge of sharing configuration and secrets between the two tools. The approaches range from simple (using DNS conventions to avoid sharing altogether) to pure GitOps (having Terraform commit files directly to Git), to last-resort direct cluster injection via Terraform's Kubernetes/Helm providers, and finally the GitOps Bridge pattern using cluster labels and ApplicationSets. A bonus alternative, Crossplane, is presented as a unified solution that eliminates the need for Terraform entirely by managing infrastructure as native Kubernetes objects. Each approach is evaluated with pros, cons, and a comparison table covering effort, GitOps compliance, and trade-offs.

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    Article
    Avatar of laravelLaravel·13w

    Your AI Agent Can Now Deploy to Laravel Cloud (and Write This Blog)

    Laravel Cloud has opened early access to its REST API, enabling AI agents to manage cloud infrastructure through conversation. Florian Beer, an Infrastructure Engineer at Laravel, built a 400-line bash CLI wrapper called the `laravel-cloud` skill that covers all 19 resource categories of the API — deployments, databases, caches, domains, scaling, and more. The skill is installable via `clawhub install laravel-cloud` and works with any OpenClaw-compatible AI agent setup. The post (itself written by an AI bot) explains the design rationale for using bash (zero setup friction), demonstrates example agent interactions, and argues that clean, well-documented APIs like Laravel Cloud's are well-positioned for the emerging era of action-taking AI agents.

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