Observability-Driven Infrastructure with Terraform and OpenTelemetry

Learn to implement observability practices for infrastructure management by integrating OpenTelemetry with Terraform workflows in this 12-minute conference talk. Discover how to eliminate infrastructure blind spots caused by complexity and multicloud environments that can become operational liabilities. Explore techniques for proactively building Infrastructure as Code that provides end-to-end lifecycle visibility from planning through application to runtime state drift detection. Master the instrumentation of Terraform executions to generate structured OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs while understanding trace-context propagation for correlating infrastructure changes to incidents and service level objectives. Examine drift detection and audit capabilities using state deltas with OpenTelemetry collector, and learn to create unified dashboards that display infrastructure health, change history, and reliability signals. Understand how to scale observability pipelines for Infrastructure as Code operations using collector, processor, and exporter components to make infrastructure changes a transparent part of your observability stack.