In today’s fast-moving DevOps world, terms like Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and automation are often used interchangeably—but they are not the same. This talk clears the confusion by breaking down what each truly means, where they overlap, and where they should stay separate. We’ll explore real-world scenarios of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps pipelines to show why treating every automation script as IaC—or every IaC definition as CI/CD—can create technical debt, fragile systems, and operational risks.
