Infrastructure Testing: Validating Your IaC Before Production
You test your application code. Why not your infrastructure code? Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has the same failure modes as any software: bugs, regressions, unintended side effects. Yet most teams treat Terraform and Ansible like configuration files rather than code that deserves tests. Why Infrastructure Testing Matters A Terraform plan looks correct until it: Creates a security group that’s too permissive Deploys to the wrong availability zone Sets instance types that exceed your budget Breaks networking in ways that only manifest at runtime Manual review catches some issues. Automated testing catches more. ...