Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code in the Age of Agentic Development
Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
IaC gives AI agents a reviewable safeguard for changing clusters and cloud resources without direct account access.
Guinevere Saenger argues that infrastructure as code matters beyond provisioning because clusters and cloud resources keep changing, and Kubernetes version end-of-support can raise bills.
Defining all infrastructure in one place makes updates clear and safe.
It also lets AI agents propose infrastructure changes without holding cloud account keys.
She contrasts in-cluster tools that follow the Kubernetes Resource Model, such as Crossplane and ACK, with external tools such as Pulumi, Terraform and OpenTofu that treat the cluster as one more resource and make upgrades a reviewable one-line change.