DevOps Infrastructure

Overview

Manual infrastructure changes are incidents waiting to happen. Unversioned configs are undocumented debt.

Core principle: EVERY piece of infrastructure is defined in code, stored in version control, and deployed through automation.

Violating the letter of this process is violating the spirit of infrastructure engineering.

The Iron Law

NO MANUAL INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES - EVERYTHING IS CODE, VERSIONED, AND REVIEWABLE

If you clicked through a console UI to create it, it doesn't exist yet. Write the code.

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