If you read my articles published on DZone this year, you would have sensed that I love automation and that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is my buddy for automating infrastructure provisioning. Recently, I started exploring and learning about the major shifts happening in the IaC landscape. 

As part of my weekend readings in the last couple of months, I came across several exciting announcements from HashiConf 2025, Pulumi‘s new AI capabilities, and a revolutionary platform called Formae. In this article, let’s learn about how IaC progressed in 2025 and how it helped automation, particularly for provisioning AI infrastructure.