Cloud Native CI/CD with Terraform, GitLab & GitHub Actions
A panel discussion on building cloud-native CI/CD pipelines with Terraform, GitLab, and GitHub Actions. Cosmin Drimba (safeINIT) was one of four presenters.
About this talk
How real teams ship infrastructure on AWS
A four-person panel comparing how teams actually run cloud-native CI/CD on AWS. The conversation moves across Terraform's role as the IaC layer, GitLab CI vs GitHub Actions as the runner, and where each combination breaks down at scale.
Cosmin represents the safeINIT angle: shipping AWS infrastructure for clients across healthcare and regulated industries, where the pipeline isn't optional and the audit trail matters as much as the deploy.
Key takeaways
What different teams have actually settled on after running these pipelines in production.
Tooling
- Terraform as the IaC layer of choice
- GitLab CI vs GitHub Actions: where each fits
- Managing state, secrets, and approvals
Patterns
- Per-environment vs per-account isolation
- Plan-and-apply gates for production
- Audit trail expectations in regulated work
Bring this kind of work to your AWS environment.
If something here lined up with what you're building, the next step is a working call with the team that delivered it.