Project Lightning Talk: Atlantis: Terraform Pull Request Automation for Cloud Native Teams - R. Chen

Atlantis is a CNCF Sandbox project that provides Terraform and OpenTofu pull request automation for cloud native teams. In this 5-minute Project Lightning Talk, I will give a concise project update and show how Atlantis fits into modern infrastructure delivery: making plans visible in pull requests, keeping applies approval-gated, and preserving an auditable Git-based workflow. The talk will focus on the core Atlantis workflow: webhook-triggered plans, pull request comments, policy-aware approvals, controlled applies, and self-hosted deployment patterns for Kubernetes-based teams. I will also briefly cover why this workflow remains important as the open source IaC ecosystem evolves around Terraform and OpenTofu. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of what Atlantis does, when it is a good fit, recent community focus areas, and how to get involved as users or contributors.