From the course: DevOps Foundations: Infrastructure as Code

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Using AI to create your IaC

Using AI to create your IaC

AI is giving infrastructure as code a real boost. Instead of wrestling with providers, modules, and syntax, we can lean on tools that understand patterns, surface mistakes early, and help us spend less time fighting configuration and more time delivering actual value. For this lesson, we're going to build up an application that will deploy into AWS. Like we spent much of of the manual lab work earlier on in this course, but this time we're using a simple tool chain that will use AI to do most of the work for us. VS Code is our editor, Copilot is our AI pair programmer, Docker runs the Terraform MCP server, and Dry Run Security checks our code policies. Together, they create an environment where AI can understand the structure of your infrastructure's code instead of guessing. MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. Think of it as a translator that gives AI structured, accurate knowledge about your tools or…

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