Declare. Push. Deploy: Releases in a Community-Driven Cloud Platform

Developing and deploying cloud infrastructure to suit all application environments is not trivial. Usually, product teams require dedicated DevOps engineers for building tailored cloud solutions. However, the value is missed when the expertise is spread across multiple departments. In many organizations, this leads to duplicate IasC modules, inconsistent environments and operational bottlenecks.

This presentation aims to describe one solution to this: a unified, evergreen Terraform platform that uses declarative configuration to transform application requirements into functional cloud infrastructure. And all powered by community contributions.

Also, stability should not be a compromise when new features are added. For this, we will showcase how we manage platform releases. By leveraging GitHub Actions, ArgoWorkflows and ArgoCD, new platform versions are distributed to the product teams. The same flow handles config changes too, reducing the operational overhead for deploying updates.