Designing maintainable infrastructure-as-code

This talk will focus on designing infrastructure-as-code modules that are maintainable and extensible.

We'll cover important topics like:

• all module registries are a dumpster fire
• handling different lifecycles between related resources
• managing env parity when scale differs
• use-case-specific modules
• designing inputs, outputs, and locals to minimize developer overhead and maximize encapsulating expertise

The talk will use OpenTofu/Terraform to illustrate but applies to other IaC tools like Pulumi and Crossplane.