https://brenthollers.com/tags/ci/cd/Recent content in CI/CD on Brent HollersHugoen-USTue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://brenthollers.com/posts/absence-system-iac/part-3-automating-everything/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://brenthollers.com/posts/absence-system-iac/part-3-automating-everything/<h1 id="automating-everything-cicd-monitoring-and-workflows">Automating Everything: CI/CD, Monitoring, and Workflows</h1> <p><em>Part 3 of 4: Building Production-Grade Infrastructure</em></p> <hr> <h2 id="from-infrastructure-to-operations">From Infrastructure to Operations</h2> <p>In <a href="./part-1-from-manual-chaos-to-iac.md">Part 1</a>, we identified the business problem and designed our architecture. In <a href="./part-2-building-with-terraform.md">Part 2</a>, we built secure, modular infrastructure with Terraform.</p> <p><strong>But infrastructure alone isn&rsquo;t production-ready.</strong></p> <p>A system is only as good as our ability to:</p> <ul> <li>Know when it breaks (monitoring)</li> <li>Deploy changes safely (CI/CD)</li> <li>Automate business logic (workflows)</li> </ul> <p><strong>This article covers making infrastructure operational:</strong></p>