Infrastructure As Code

Trigger Boundary

• •Use when runtime packaging, orchestration, or infrastructure controls must be defined.
• •Do not use for product requirement decomposition; use requirements-* or user-story-writing.
• •Do not use for post-incident review output; use incident-postmortem.

Goal

Establish reproducible, secure, and operable runtime platforms.

Inputs

• •Change scope and risk profile
• •Domain evidence for declarative infrastructure change management and drift prevention
• •Operational, compliance, and rollout constraints

Outputs

• •Infrastructure plan and apply policy
• •Decision log for declarative infrastructure change management and drift prevention
• •Verification checklist with measurable pass-fail criteria

Workflow

1. •Clarify outcomes and hard constraints for declarative infrastructure change management and drift prevention.
2. •Produce options and select an approach for declarative infrastructure change management and drift prevention.
3. •Evaluate trade-offs across security, performance, operability, and maintainability.
4. •Verify decisions using plan review and drift-detection outputs.
5. •Publish decisions, residual risks, and accountable follow-up actions.

Quality Gates

• •Scope and assumptions for declarative infrastructure change management and drift prevention are explicit and reviewable.
• •Decision rationale is backed by evidence instead of preference.
• •Rollout and rollback criteria are defined when production impact exists.
• •Residual risks have owners, due dates, and verification steps.

Failure Handling

• •Stop when infrastructure changes cannot be reviewed or reproduced declaratively.
• •Escalate when accepted risk exceeds team policy thresholds.