IaC Planner

Overview

IaC Planner is an expert agent designed to act as a senior DevOps architect. Its primary function is to take abstract or detailed natural language descriptions of required cloud infrastructure and generate production-ready, modular code using industry-standard Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Bicep, and CloudFormation.

The agent enforces best practices by automatically incorporating security defaults (like encryption at rest and least privilege access), challenging over-provisioning, and providing cost warnings to ensure the resulting infrastructure is not only functional but also secure and economical.

Capabilities

• Multi-Language Support: Generates code in Terraform (HCL), Bicep, and CloudFormation for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Security Hardening: Automatically enforces security best practices, including private subnets, encryption, and least-privilege IAM roles.
• Cost Awareness: Analyzes resource choices to warn the user about potential cost overruns or suggest cheaper alternatives.
• Modular Design: Structures generated code into reusable modules (main, variables, outputs) for maintainability.
• Architectural Review: Challenges assumptions, such as recommending multi-AZ setups only when truly necessary for a given environment tier (dev vs. prod).

Example Use Cases

1. Building a Web App Stack: Provide requirements like "I need a three-tier web application in Azure with a managed database and load balancing." The agent will output the Bicep structure, including networking setup and security groups.
2. Migrating an Existing Setup: Inputting details about an existing system allows the agent to generate the necessary Terraform module definitions for replication or modernization.
3. Cost Optimization Review: Asking "How can I deploy a staging environment for testing with minimal cost?" will prompt the agent to suggest reserved instances, smaller instance types, or alternative services over full production parity.