Welcome to the July edition of Mission Infrastructure, your monthly tour of the infrastructure-as-code world. Looking forward to some downtime this month? We have some great recent articles to add to your summer reading list on everything from automation with Ansible AWX to the status of women in tech in 2025 (TL;DR: equality is still some way off).
Plus, we’ve news on product updates and upcoming events. Grab a cool beverage and read on:
Ansible AWX is the open-source web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine for Ansible automation. It offers a centralized visual dashboard for managing playbooks, inventories, credentials, job templates, and scheduling. In this article, Sumeet Ninawe walks you through setting up and using Ansible AWX for efficient automation workflows.
Whereas Terraform enables the provisioning and management of infrastructure across multiple platforms, Jenkins centers on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
In this article, Faisal Hashem outlines these tools’ core functionalities and demonstrates how they can be integrated to build an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline.
Integrated tool suites that implement the DevOps lifecycle and best practices in software development, DevOps platforms support developers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to deliver quality software. James Walker’s article discusses key features of 20 of the most popular DevOps platforms and highlights which DevOps lifecycle stages they support.
Viewing a Docker container’s logs lets you see what’s happening inside the container, giving you a starting point for troubleshooting. James Walker’s guide demonstrates how to access Docker container logs and use the different options available. You’ll also get an overview of Docker’s log storage settings so you can tailor your container observability to your needs.
Configuration management can be done manually at the start, but bottlenecks arise as soon as you scale. Ansible automation solves the problem by providing a systematic approach to configuration management and application deployment. In this article, Flavius Dinu examines different approaches to Ansible automation and discusses strategies for implementing Ansible automation workflows.
GitOps and DevOps are two complementary strategies for managing software delivery, but they are independent techniques with different aims. GitOps uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for projects, whereas DevOps describes a broader culture of automation and collaboration in development. In this article, James Walker examines the benefits of each approach.
GitOps and DevOps are two complementary strategies for managing software delivery, but they are independent techniques with different aims. GitOps uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for projects, whereas DevOps describes a broader culture of automation and collaboration in development. In this article, James Walker examines the benefits of each approach.
The tech sector continues to grapple with a substantial gender gap. Even in 2025, substantial disparities remain in workforce representation, leadership roles, education, retention, pay, and advancement opportunities for women in technology. In this article, Aoife O’Carroll examines the global picture for women in tech and learns from leading women in the industry what it’s like dealing with the reality of that gender gap.
We’ve gathered a panel of IaC implementation experts from Masterpoint, Nuvibit, and Semantive to discuss reworking your IaC pipelines to fulfill their promise of making infrastructure fast, consistent, and easy to scale. The session will cover:
What to do when the pain of ClickOps becomes too great to ignore
Why DIY infrastructure pipelines don’t work at scale
The risks of managing policy-as-code and state files with generic CI/CD
The ROI inputs teams often overlook when considering the build vs. buy approach
Register now to discover what works — and what doesn’t — from those helping teams improve IaC pipelines every day:
You asked for more on IaC security — and the IaCConf team is delivering. IaCConf Spotlight: IaC Security & Governance will take place on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. Presentations are being considered on the following topics:
Best practices for IaC security: How to embed security into IaC pipelines, how teams are managing risk early in the development lifecycle, or how to work with your cybersecurity counterparts to enable security across infrastructure.
Making IaC scanning actionable: Deep dives into IaC scanning: choosing the right tools, how to integrate into developer workflows, and driving real risk reduction.
Demystifying the risk of open source IaC: How to effectively govern open-source IaC tools, reduce supply chain risk, and build leadership confidence in the open ecosystem.
With Spacelift’s more intuitive and informative Resources View, you can now easily group resources based on stack, provider, and type. You also have multiple ways to filter them.
Streamline your notification policies when you are using Slack with:
Tagging Users/Teams with Default Message for Slack Notifications: Ensure your notifications reach the correct users and groups.
Threaded Slack Notifications: Follow and join discussions more easily, now that notifications related to the same event or stack are grouped into threads.
This integration enables Backstage to check the current status of your team's stacks and perform actions on them. This means you can view the status of all your Spacelift stacks directly within your Backstage developer portal, trigger stack runs without leaving Backstage, and integrate infrastructure management into your developer portal experience.
Note: This feature is still in beta testing.
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