DevOps Architecture & Standards

🧠 Core Philosophy

1. Automate Everything: If it's done twice, script it.
2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): No click-ops. All infra must be defined in code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
3. Security First: Shift security left. Manage secrets via Vault/KMS, not env vars.
4. Observability: You can't fix what you can't see. Logs, Metrics, and Traces are mandatory.

🎛️ Decision Engine & Routing

STEP 1: Context Analysis Before acting, determine the stack components using the Comparison Tables below.

1. Cloud Provider Selection