Infrastructure as code across AWS, GCP and Azure
Kitecorp writes and restructures infrastructure as code so that a fresh clone plans what production runs: Terraform for cloud resources, Ansible for what lives on machines, and Kite, our open-source infrastructure-as-code language, where its model fits. Every input is committed, no secret is a variable, and every pull request is proven by a guard.
What does an IaC engagement deliver?
A repository structure where each environment and region is a stack with its own state, selected by tag, planned and applied through one wrapper that refuses to run against nothing. Modules with inputs that are validated and tests that run without live infrastructure. A rule, enforced by a sweep, that a clean clone plans exactly what the canonical checkout plans: every input committed, no secret as a variable, no behaviour gated by a file git does not track. Guards on every pull request: formatting, validation, module tests, and the assertions that keep an IAM policy or a certificate list from widening by accident. And the runbooks for the applies that still need a person.
Terraform, Ansible or Kite: what goes where?
Terraform owns cloud resources: networks, clusters, buckets, queues, roles, DNS. Ansible owns what happens inside a machine when a machine is still the right unit: packages, services, files on hosts that are not containers. Kite is our open-source infrastructure-as-code language; it owns the parts of a system where its model of infrastructure reads more clearly than the other two, and it coexists with them rather than replacing them. The assessment draws the boundary for your estate and the reasons go into the repository’s documentation, next to the code.
How do we keep state and secrets safe?
State lives in a versioned, encrypted bucket with native locking, one key per stack, so a mistake in one stack cannot touch another and a bad apply can be rolled back from history. Secrets never become variables: the provider reads them from the environment at plan time, sourced from the cloud’s parameter or secret store, and the repository holds only the reference. The failure this prevents is real and specific: a toggle whose live value lived only in a gitignored file once made a fresh clone plan the destruction of live storage. The rule and the sweep that enforces it came from that incident.
What is Kite, and when do we use it?
Kite is an open-source infrastructure-as-code language built by Kitecorp. Building a language is how we keep our own infrastructure practice honest: every rough edge a client hits in Terraform or Ansible becomes a design question for Kite, and every answer Kite finds feeds back into how we structure the other two. We use it where its model fits and say plainly where it does not. The case study on Kite explains the reasoning.
How does an engagement run?
A discovery call to understand the estate and what has gone wrong with the code so far. An assessment with the drift report, the structure proposed and the guards to add. The restructuring with your team, in small pull requests each proven by a read-only plan that shows no changes. A handover with the wrapper, the sweeps, the guards and the runbooks. Pricing follows the discovery call, once we know the scope.
Frequently asked questions
Our Terraform has drifted from production. Can that be fixed?
Yes. Drift is found with read-only plans, each difference is either imported into state or corrected in code, and a guard is added so the next drift fails a pull request instead of surprising an apply.
Terraform, Ansible or Kite?
Terraform for cloud resources, Ansible for configuration inside machines, Kite where its model of infrastructure fits better than both. They coexist; the assessment says which owns what.
How do you keep secrets out of code?
Secrets are never variables. They live in the cloud's secret store, are read at plan or apply time from the environment, and the repository holds only the reference. A sweep fails any stack that depends on an untracked file.
Do you work with our existing team?
Yes. Every engagement is delivered with your engineers and ends with a handover, runbooks and alerts they own.
How do we start?
Send a message through the contact page. We schedule a discovery call, agree the scope, and pricing follows what we find.
Tell us what you are scaling
Send a short description of the system and the deadline. A senior engineer replies by email, and pricing follows a discovery call.
Contact Kitecorp or email admin@kitelang.cloud