Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform Keynote

About this episode

A conversation with Gareth Kersey about IaCConf 2026 and the impact of AI on infrastructure and software delivery.

This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly , separate from the weekly news recaps. This episode is not sponsored. I wanted to cover IaCConf because the theme lines up closely with what Ship It Weekly focuses on: infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and how teams are adapting to AI-driven change. In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Gareth Kersey about IaCConf 2026, a free virtual conference focused on infrastructure as code, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and infrastructure operations. The conference is May 14th 2026. The main theme is “keeping pace.” Not just keeping pace with new tools, but keeping pace with the speed of software delivery now that AI is changing how quickly application teams can write, ship, and change code. We talk about what that means for the infrastructure teams underneath it all: the people responsible for Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps, policies, secrets, cost, security, rollback paths, and making sure faster delivery does not turn into faster chaos. Gareth walks through the IaCConf 2026 agenda, including Corey Quinn’s keynote, AI and Terraform sessions, platform engineering panels, Kubernetes and Argo CD talks…

People in this episode

Guest: Gareth Kersey

Topics covered

• infrastructure as code
• platform engineering
• DevOps
• SRE
• AI-driven change

Keywords

• IaCConf
• infrastructure as code
• DevOps
• AI
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• software delivery

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