Project Lightning Talk: Atlantis: Terraform Pull Request Automation for Cloud Native... Rui Chen

Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in Salt Lake City, United States (Nov 9–12, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Project Lightning Talk: Atlantis: Terraform Pull Request Automation for Cloud Native Teams - Rui Chen, Justworks 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.