40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents

From Bash scripts to AI agents, this video tells the forty-year history of infrastructure as code as a bedtime story — complete with a weary servant, a kingdom that never stops growing, and a parade of tinkers who each promise to fix everything. Traveling through CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Crossplane, the story traces how every generation of tooling solved a real problem, only for the kingdom to expand fast enough to swallow the improvement whole. The real nightmare, it turns out, isn't failure — it's winning, over and over, and still being the one who gets woken up at three in the morning. As AI agents arrive and claim the part of the job that took decades to master, the video asks a quietly unsettling question: if the next generation of tooling no longer needs to be readable by a human, who exactly is it being built for — and who will still be holding the lantern when something breaks? #InfrastructureAsCode #DevOps #Kubernetes Consider joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit/join ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 Sponsorships 💰 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ If you are interested in sponsoring this channel, please visit https://devopstoolkit.live/sponsor for more information. Alternatively, feel free to contact me over Twitter or LinkedIn (see below). ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 Contact me 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ➡ BlueSky: https://vfarcic.bsky.social ➡ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktorfarcic/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🚀 Other Channels 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎤 Podcast: https://www.devopsparadox.com/ 💬 Live streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/DevOpsParadox ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⏱ Timecodes ⏱ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 History of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) 01:34 Bash 03:21 CFEngine, Puppet & Chef 05:18 Ansible 08:01 Terraform & Pulumi 11:55 Crossplane 17:08 AI Agents 19:02 The Nightmare 20:44 Goodnight