Infrastructure Management at Scale with Cluster API, MachineDeployments and MachinePools

I have been managing infrastructure and organisations of different shapes and sizes since early 2017. The toolset has really evolved over time, and different solutions have been developed by organisations along the way. Starting out, I saw a number of places calling cloud provider APIs directly and building CLI tooling on top of them. Background: Infrastructure management with Terraform HashiCorp really gained market share here with Terraform. AWS also had CloudFormation, but across the organisations I have worked with or observed over time, most standardised on Terraform. ...

February 20, 2026 · 7 min · Tasdik Rahman