Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Management with AI | Harness
Infrastructure as Code Management
Orchestrate and Govern IaC Workflows with AI
The Practical Guide to Modernizing Infrastructure Delivery
In today’s AI-native landscape, siloed workflows and manual steps still slow infrastructure delivery. This guide outlines a unified, automated framework that platform teams can use to deliver and orchestrate secure, governed and scalable infrastructure.
Collaborate, Standardize, and Scale Infrastructure
Harness IaCM is a unified and trusted platform for DevOps teams, platform engineers, and cloud engineers to manage Terraform, OpenTofu, and other IaC tools with consistent, repeatable, compliant workflows.
Self-Service IaC for DevOps Teams & Platform Engineers
Effortless Collaboration and Reusability
- Improve collaboration by allowing teams to manage and reuse shared modules and templates, reducing conflicts, improving visibility, and simplifying the review process.
- Accelerate the adoption of Infrastructure as Code by making it easier for teams to work with approved infrastructure components.
- Reduce time to market by decreasing manual steps and deployment cycle times.
Centralize Control and Governance
- Reduce errors by removing manual processes and automating infrastructure workflows.
- Detect issues earlier in the design process through integrated checks and automated validations.
- Maintain full control with governance policies that prevent security breaches and keep infrastructure environments safe and compliant.
Shared pipelines for infrastructure changes
CI/CD for Infrastructure
- Harness Infrastructure as Code management offers a dedicated CI/CD solution for fully automating deployments of Terraform scripts, OpenTofu scripts, and other IaC tools.
- Seamlessly integrates Infrastructure as Code management into Harness pipelines for automated provisioning and updates across environments.
- Drive consistency with workspace templates, variable sets, and centrally managed modules and providers registries.
Control and Optimize Infrastructure Costs
Gain full visibility into resource ownership, usage, changes, and associated costs across environments.
Preview resource changes before they are applied to make proactive, informed cost decisions.
Enforce policies to prevent unexpected cost spikes and ensure teams stay within budget.
Customer Success Stories
PlayQ
With Harness, all Terraform plans and applies run concurrently. Pushing upgrades to Kubernetes clusters is 4x faster than it used to take with Terraform Cloud.
- John Maynard, Director of Platform Engineering
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of provisioning, managing, and orchestrating infrastructure using code instead of manual processes. It treats infrastructure like software—version-controlled, testable, repeatable, and automated.
What is configuration drift and how does IaC address it?
Configuration drift occurs when the live infrastructure state no longer matches the desired state defined in code. IaC solves this through automated drift detection and continuous state monitoring.
What are the benefits of using IaC?
IaC improves speed, consistency, and scalability by automating infrastructure provisioning through reusable modules, templates, and stacks. It reduces human error and enables CI/CD-driven workflows for infrastructure changes.
What's the difference between declarative and imperative IaC?
Declarative IaC describes what the desired end state should be, allowing the IaC engine to determine the necessary steps, while imperative IaC specifies how to build or update infrastructure by defining exact sequences of operations.
What tools are commonly used for IaC?
Popular IaC tools include OpenTofu, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Resource Manager.
Why do teams use IaCM on top of IaC tools?
Teams use IaCM to create and orchestrate consistent workflows, improve governance, and standardize how infrastructure changes move through development, staging, and production.
How does IaCM support GitOps for infrastructure?
IaCM enables GitOps for infrastructure by ensuring that every infrastructure change starts with a pull request, moves through automated checks and approvals, and is applied consistently.
What is the role of Policy as Code in IaC and IaCM?
Policy as Code allows organizations to define rules for security, compliance, resource usage, and cost optimization in a machine-readable format.