Policy as Code and Infrastructure Guardrails
A focused chapter on policy as code and infrastructure guardrails, with practical delivery concerns, trade-offs, and the operational questions behind CI/CD work.
Why Infrastructure Needs Its Own Policies
You have a solid CI/CD pipeline. Your application builds, tests, and deploys smoothly. The team feels confident shipping changes multiple times a day
Five Infrastructure Policies That Keep Your Cloud From Burning Money and Security
A developer needs SSH access to a production server for a quick debugging session. They open port 22 to 0.0.0.0/0 so they can connect from their home IP
Why Your Infrastructure Rules Should Be Written as Code
Your team has a policy: no security group should ever open SSH port 22 to the entire internet. Everyone agrees. It's in the documentation. Someone even
Where to Run Infrastructure Policies: Plan, Apply, and Post-Deploy
You have written your infrastructure policies as code. They check for security violations, cost overruns, and naming conventions. Now comes the practical
When Infrastructure Policy Gets in the Way: Handling Exceptions Without Breaking Security
You've spent weeks crafting infrastructure policies. Every resource must follow naming conventions, use approved instance types, and never expose certain
When Infrastructure Changes Outside Your Pipeline: Drift Detection for Policy Compliance
You have written policies. You have automated checks in your CI/CD pipeline. Every deployment runs through validation before anything reaches production