devops-iac-engineer

This Skill helps DevOps teams design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles. Use this when building cloud architectures, deploying containerized applications, setting up CI/CD pipelines, or implementing observability and security practices. When implementing infrastructure, follow this structured approach: Understand Requirements Design Architecture Select IaC Tools Implement Infrastructure Set Up Observability Implement CI/CD Test & Validate Deploy & Monitor Multi-Cloud Requirements → Terraform or Pulumi AWS-Only → Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation Container Orchestration → Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) Simple Container Deployment → ECS, Cloud Run, or App Service Configuration Management → Ansible or cloud-native solutions GitOps Workflows → ArgoCD or Flux CI/CD Pipelines → GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins Problem : Infrastructure drift between code and reality Solution : Implement automated drift detection, use terraform plan in CI/CD, enable read-only production access, maintain state file integrity Problem : Secrets management and credential exposure Solution : Use cloud-native secret managers (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault), implement SOPS for encrypted secrets in Git, use IRSA/workload identity Problem : High cloud costs and unexpected bills Solution : Implement tagging strategy, use cost allocation tags, set up...