GitOps & Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure That's Versioned, Reviewable, and Auditable
When infrastructure changes happen via kubectl apply or manually in the AWS console, nobody has a complete view. GitOps is the answer.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) means describing all infrastructure in code, not as click documentation, but as executable, versioned configuration. GitOps goes one step further: Git is the single source of truth, and any deviation is automatically detected and corrected.
The most common challenges
Nobody knows what changed and when
When infrastructure changes are made manually in the cloud console, there's no audit trail. What changed between last Tuesday and the production outage is impossible to reconstruct.
Reproducible environments are impossible
When staging and production diverge in configuration because they were built differently, staging tests aren't reliable. 'Works on staging, breaks in production' often has exactly this cause.
Infrastructure drift is invisible
When someone manually changes a security group rule or deletes a resource without reflecting the change in code, the actual infrastructure drifts from the documentation, invisibly, until it becomes a problem.
The CCsolutions approach
CCsolutions implements IaC projects with Terraform (or OpenTofu as an open-source alternative): the entire cloud infrastructure, VPCs, Kubernetes clusters, IAM policies, databases, load balancers, is described in Terraform modules. Pull requests for infrastructure changes, code reviews, automatic terraform plan outputs.
GitOps for Kubernetes deployments via ArgoCD: the desired state of all Kubernetes resources is defined in Git. ArgoCD continuously compares the Git state with the cluster state and signals deviations, or corrects them automatically, depending on configuration.
The result: infrastructure that behaves like software. Every change has an author, a commit, a review. Rollbacks are a `git revert`. New environments are a `terraform apply`. Audit trails happen automatically.
Technologies
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Terraform and ArgoCD?
Terraform manages cloud infrastructure (AWS resources, Azure resources, networks, databases). ArgoCD manages Kubernetes workloads (Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps). Together they cover the entire stack layer, infrastructure and application layer.
Do existing manual resources need to be migrated to Terraform?
Existing resources can be imported into the IaC state using `terraform import`. This is a one-time effort that makes the migration safer than recreating resources. CCsolutions has performed this process for many clients.
How is it ensured that developers stop making manual changes?
Through IAM policies that restrict direct console changes, and policy enforcement (AWS Config, OPA) that marks manual changes as drift. Anyone who needs an infrastructure change opens a pull request, that is the only permitted path.
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