I've written previously about using ChatGPT to provide Artificial Intelligence ('AI') support for coding and tutoring in unfamiliar areas. What about using it on home turf, i.e. in an area with which I am familiar- in this case a Terraform module for generic use?

I've previously written about writing applications with ChatGPT. Now I am writing about using ChatGPT as a coding tutor.

This article demonstrates how to use Terraform features new in February 2023 to comprehensively manage permission set assignments in AWS Single-Sign-On / IAM identity Centre across accounts and by Organizational Unit.

Recently I wrote about writing a Golang application with a conversational Artificial Intelligence service - ChatGPT. This is a follow on article about trying to use a similar approach for testing. I am not presuming a familiarity with Golang for this article or claiming a high degree of expertise in it myself. The code discussed in both articles is here.

A new conversational Artificial Intelligence service - ChatGPT - has been making waves this week. I tried using it for a small coding project and was impressed. I think it has some profound implications for the software industry.

[!NOTE] As of August 2026 this site has been migrated again, to Astro

This post is also published on Medium It’s kind of a standing joke in the industry - do some cool thing with AWS to implement an infrastructure feature, and if it works well, Amazon will come along a few months later with some matching in-house feature. Sometimes that feature might be a relatively simple thing, maybe something that was obviously missing, sometimes you might have had a whole project that was essentially deprecated, and sometimes it’s a feature of a larger piece of work that means you have to adjust or re-evaluate your approach. What do you do when this happens? This article covers an example of each - one that happened with a company I was working with; one that happened with a third-party project we made use of, and one that happened with my own project.

Here's a video of my presentation on 'The Bastion That Isn't There' and a Micro-component approach to Infrastructure using Terraform modules. Given at Sainsbury's London Head Office in December 2019 to the London Hashicorp Users Group. {{< youtube OCdLO65v7-I >}}

I'll be presenting 'The Bastion that isn't there' at Cloud Expo Europe on 12th March 10:55 at the ExCel in London I have a personalised link: ww.cloudexpoeurope.com/JoshuaKite  where you can book a free ticket Meantime you can read my advance interview at Techerati on the journey to enterprise scale: https://techerati.com/features-hub/interviews/the-bastion-server-that-isnt-there/

This article has been edited in Feb 2026 and also been published on Medium