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Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code exists so cloud change stays peer-reviewed, tested, and attributable: especially once multiple teams touch the same accounts. We deliver pragmatic Terraform-led programmes from first modules through multi-account landing zones with policy-as-code in CI/CD, staffed by certified engineers based in the Netherlands and working on-site or remotely.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of describing the cloud and on-premises resources you depend on in plain text: and then letting tooling realise that description in the real world. Every change goes through pull-request review, CI runs tests against it, and only the green builds end up in production.

For most programmes Terraform is the default engine, complemented by Ansible, Helm, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and Bicep where they reduce risk. We operate it daily across large AWS and Azure environments for organisations that answer to security and finance reviewers.

The IaC stack we work with

Provisioning
Terraform & OpenTofu (primary), Pulumi, CloudFormation, Bicep.
Configuration management
Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
Delivery
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux.
Policy & testing
OPA, Sentinel, Checkov, tflint, Terratest, Molecule.
Secrets
HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault.
Our approach

How we deliver Infrastructure as Code

A repeatable engineering practice: not a collection of one-off scripts.

Modules & standards

We design reusable Terraform modules with sane defaults, semantic versioning and integration tests. Naming, tagging, encryption, logging and IAM scopes are baked in: every project starts from the same green-tagged baseline.

CI/CD & policy-as-code

Every PR triggers lint, security scan, plan, cost diff and policy checks (OPA / Sentinel / Checkov). Approved applies happen from CI with short-lived credentials: never from a laptop. Drift detection runs on a schedule and turns deltas into tickets.

Multi-account landing zones

We build full multi-account landing zones in Terraform: networking, identity, guardrails, logging and shared services: so new product teams get a paved road from day one.

Outcomes

Why IaC pays back

Done well, IaC turns infrastructure changes into a normal engineering workflow. Done badly, it becomes a graveyard of half-applied state. We focus on the first.

  • Repeatable environments: dev, staging, production from the same code

  • Faster delivery: provisioning that took days now takes minutes

  • Lower risk: every change is reviewed, planned and reversible

  • Audit-ready: git history is your change record, no spreadsheet required

  • Multi-cloud reach: one engine across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and SaaS

Read our AWS Terraform landing zone case study

We rolled out a fully Terraform-driven multi-account AWS landing zone with a security baseline, centralised log management, governance and networking: including an Account Vending Machine so new accounts come pre-shaped, peer-reviewed and policy-compliant from day one.

Read the case
Use cases

Where customers ask us to help

From greenfield platforms to recovering an IaC repo nobody dares touch.

Greenfield cloud setup

You are starting on AWS or Azure and want a Terraform-driven landing zone you won’t regret in eighteen months.

Existing IaC in pain

Your Terraform mono-repo breaks every release. We refactor for modules, workspaces and CI/CD without a big-bang rewrite.

Compliance roll-out

You need ISO, NIS2 or DORA controls expressed as policy-as-code so audits stop being a quarterly emergency.

Why us

Why The Factory for Infrastructure as Code

Real engineers, real production: measured in deploy frequency, not lines of HCL.

HashiCorp & multi-cloud certified

HashiCorp, AWS, and Azure certified engineers. ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and NEN 4400-1 certified company.

Production-tested pattern library

Reusable Terraform modules and Ansible roles from years of customer engagements: your project starts ahead, not from scratch.

Knowledge transfer

We pair with your team and leave behind documented modules, runbooks and a release process you can keep moving without us.

Our Infrastructure as Code & Terraform consultancy across the Netherlands

The Factory is a Dutch cloud consultancy based in Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland). We work with organisations across the Randstad (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven), and with customers elsewhere in the European Union. Our architects and platform engineers operate in Dutch and English, with experience on AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.

  • Based in Rijswijk: on-site across the Randstad, remote elsewhere in the EU
  • NEN 4400-1, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified
  • Bilingual delivery in Dutch and English
  • EU data residency, NIS2, DORA, and GDPR factored into the design
Who we work with

Mostly mid-size and enterprise organisations across the Netherlands: in financial services, public sector, healthcare, education, industry, and SaaS. Engagements range from a short cloud assessment to long-running managed cloud operations.

The Factory B.V.
Veraartlaan 12
2288 GM Rijswijk, The Netherlands
info@thefactory.nl

Talk to an engineer

Request an Infrastructure as Code architecture review

We'll review your current Terraform code (or your drawing-board plan), audit your pipelines, testing, governance and developer experience: and come back with a prioritised improvement roadmap, usually within two weeks.

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Behind every assignment

The same engineers stay on the work.

  • Documented decisions. Architecture, trade-offs, and runbooks live in the same repository as the code: reviewable on day one and on day 200.
  • Monthly WTF sessions. Engineers walk through customer work, technical deep-dives, experiments, and what didn’t work. What The Faqtory!: our standing internal review.
  • Standing learning investment. Active Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru access, certification time, and study agreements where the depth justifies it.

The point isn’t novelty. The point is that two years in, the platform still makes sense to the people running it. Read about our engineering culture

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