Using Agentic IaC for Managing Infrastructure: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - BRKETI-2286#

Speakers: Peter Bosch (Cisco)

• Why: Agentic AI operating infrastructure-as-code is arriving fast in exactly the network/security ops domain this PM owns — and the promising "good, bad, ugly" framing plus an explicit open call for contributors suggests honest failure discussion rather than triumphalism.
• What: An approach where agentic AI teams create, validate, replicate, review, and approve infrastructure changes autonomously — capturing cloud-native and network state in GitHub as source of truth, managing it through GitHub, reducing PR-review overhead (claimed up to 30% of team time) while maintaining governance, and auto-writing Terraform/IaC/network config from natural language. Includes worked use cases and demos of what works and what doesn't. (from abstract only)
• How: Infrastructure and network state is mirrored in GitHub; agents propose changes against it, learn from review outcomes, and validate updates automatically — aiming to shift humans from reviewing routine PRs to supervising agent teams.
• Where applicable: Teams already running Terraform/IaC with GitHub-centric workflows. Explicitly experimental (the speaker asks the audience to help test and contribute). Caution: autonomous PR approval for network changes is a governance and safety frontier — the "ugly" section is likely the most valuable part.