Shift-Left Infrastructure Compliance Automation
Using n8n, Azure DevOps, FastAPI, RAG, and AI to audit Terraform changes before merge
Infrastructure teams are increasingly using Infrastructure-as-Code to define, review, and deploy cloud resources. Terraform makes infrastructure repeatable and version-controlled, but compliance review often still depends on manual checks, late-stage audit activity, or reviewer experience. That creates a gap between how fast infrastructure code moves and how quickly teams can validate security and compliance expectations.
This automation initiative was built to close that gap. The objective was to automate Terraform compliance review during the Azure DevOps pull request process, before code is merged or deployed. The result is a working shift-left audit flow that detects changed Terraform files, audits the content, maps findings to CIS and SOC2 context, uses AI to express the finding clearly, and sends PASS, FAIL, or SKIPPED notifications to reviewers.
Why This Automation Was Needed
In a traditional process, infrastructure code is written,...
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