AI Agents Are Writing Your Infrastructure Code. Is Anyone Governing It?
DevOps.com, Friday, July 24th, 2026
AI-generated infrastructure code passes security checks only about 55% of the time, creating governance gaps.
As AI agents generate increasing volumes of Terraform and Kubernetes configuration, only about 55% of that output is secure by default.
Infrastructure vulnerabilities can expose entire environments, which makes governance a platform engineering responsibility rather than solely an AppSec concern.
Mature teams enforce policy-as-code before generation, scope agent permissions the way they would a human employee's, enable automated drift correction, and validate compliance during the generation process itself rather than after deployment.