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Running Ansible Playbooks in CI/CD: GitHub Actions and GitLab CI Guide [2026]

Most teams reach for Ansible in CI/CD pipelines the same way: a shell step that runs ansible-playbook, SSH keys stored as secrets, and a growing list of manual steps nobody documented. It works until it doesn't : then the failure happens at the worst possible moment and the pipeline becomes a debugging session.

AI Agent Context Explained: What Agents Can't See in Your Infrastructure

The "C" word is a controversial subject in the US, but we have to talk about "context", and what it means to an AI Agent. For starters, agents can only act on what's in their context window. Everything outside of it is a guess. In application code that limit is usually an annoyance.

Your code says one thing. Your cloud says another. Meet EZ Control. #platformengineering

EZ Control brings env zero and CloudQuery together in one product. It discovers nearly 2,300 resource types across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes, links each one to its code, owner, cost and policies, and closes the gap when what's running drifts from what you intended: drift, security, cost and availability, all under your policies. You choose how much it does, from observe-only to autonomous, with a full audit trail. The same guardrails govern AI agents.

env zero Launches EZ Control, the Autonomous Cloud Control Plane for the AI Era

Industry-Leading Asset Coverage Spanning Nearly 2,300 Resource Types Across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes, Structured into a Real-Time Ontology That EZ Control Uses to Enforce Security, Cost, Availability, Maintenance and Performance Policies Continuously.

Accelerated Migration from HCP Terraform (Terraform Cloud) with env zero Migration Wizard

Related reading: Still deciding which platform to migrate to? Terraform Alternatives: A 2026 Buyer's Guide compares env zero, Spacelift, Scalr, and the IaC tool alternatives side by side. Migrating from Terraform Cloud (TFC), now known as HCP Terraform, or Terraform Enterprise (TFE) can quickly become complex. Workspaces, variables, remote state, and project structure all need to be recreated carefully to avoid breaking infrastructure workflows.

The Best Terraform Cloud Alternative in 2026 (After the Free Tier Ended)

IBM completed its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp on February 27, 2025. The HCP Terraform free tier ended March 31, 2026. And Terraform's CDKTF framework was quietly deprecated in December 2025. None of these events broke your Terraform infrastructure. But together they raised a question that's harder to dismiss: what are you actually paying for, and what happens if the roadmap shifts again?