Spatial Infrastructure
as Code

Production patterns for provisioning, securing, and operating geospatial platforms with Terraform and Pulumi.

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Modern geospatial platforms sit at the intersection of high-throughput data pipelines, distributed compute, and strict compliance boundaries. Treating that infrastructure as ephemeral, version-controlled code eliminates configuration drift and makes deployments deterministic across development, staging, and production. This site is a practitioner's reference for doing exactly that with declarative HCL or programmatic Pulumi.

Every guide is grounded in three operational imperatives: strict state isolation, explicit security boundaries, and continuous cost visibility. You will find production-ready Terraform and Pulumi configurations for PostGIS clusters, GeoServer, vector tile services, object storage for raster and vector data, IAM, encryption and network controls, plus the testing, observability and drift-management workflows that keep them reliable.

It is written for DevOps engineers, GIS platform architects, cloud architects, and SaaS or agency teams who need spatial infrastructure to be reproducible, auditable, and safe to change.

Start here

Four entry points, one per section — the pages most people need first.

Recently added, in depth

The newest material covers the tiers a maturing platform reaches next — serving geometry, protecting it, proving it works, and watching it in production.

The spatial IaC workflow

Code is the single source of truth: state and modules provision the platform, and CI/CD guardrails feed cost, drift and policy signals back into the next change.

What's inside

Architecture

Modern geospatial platforms operate at the intersection of high-throughput data pipelines, distributed compute clusters, and strict compliance boundaries, which is why Spatial Infrastructure as Code…

5 topics in this section

Open Architecture

Provisioning

Geospatial infrastructure delivery has moved beyond ad-hoc console clicking into deterministic, version-controlled pipelines, and the resources behind a spatial platform — virtual networks, spatial…

7 topics in this section

Open Provisioning

Security

Network security and access control form the operational backbone of any production-grade geospatial platform. When map workloads — high-throughput tile caches, OGC service endpoints, batch vector…

6 topics in this section

Open Security

Governance

Every spatial provisioning change — a new PostGIS read replica, a resized GeoServer fleet, a lifecycle rule on a raster bucket — should reach production only after passing through an automated…