Tobias Schmidt walks through deploying OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, on a $7 Lightsail instance provisioned with Terraform and connected over SSM with no open ports. GitHub acts as version-controlled memory, so rollbacks are instant, and your Slack-connected agent keeps running 24/7.

Mattias Fjellstrom breaks down how Terraform's dependency graph drives parallel provisioning and why trimming unnecessary dependencies beats raising the parallelism flag. He also shows how to tune concurrency in GitHub Actions, Spacelift, and HCP Terraform with practical examples.

Rosemary Wang builds a local RAG stack using Ollama, Langflow, and OpenSearch to generate Terraform code from her own books, slides, and repos. The post details the Docker Compose setup, an OpenSearch vector-index workaround, and honest lessons on using small local models to reduce LLM costs.

Anton Babenko (author of the newsletter you are reading now) introduces Operational Rules in compliance.tf, which bake lifecycle blocks and platform standards directly into modules at terraform init. Seven rules cover prevent_destroy, ignore_changes, provisioner removal, and instance limits, replacing the fork-and-maintain cycle. AB: Feedback is welcome!

Kostis Kapelonis breaks down four ways to make Argo CD and Terraform work together, from DNS conventions and Git commits to direct cluster injection and the GitOps bridge. Each approach is compared on secrets support, GitOps purity, and complexity, with a bonus look at Crossplane.

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