Infrastructure Governance

A discipline for operating environments

Technology only becomes valuable when it can be operated, verified, maintained, repaired, recovered, and moved by more than one person.

Governance brings identity, secrets, monitoring, recovery, and lifecycle management into a consistent operating model.

• lifecycle governance
• deterministic deployment
• verification and health
• secret management

Predictable systems are easier to support

Without governance, the environment only works because someone remembers how it was assembled.

With governance, the system can be understood, supported, and reconstructed without losing control of the platform.

• idempotent repair
• backup and recovery
• platform portability
• operational ownership

Governance / health / repair / portability

This is the discipline that keeps cloud, hybrid, hosted, and owned environments sane.

• make the system reconstructable
• reduce single-person dependency

Discuss governance

If the environment is hard to explain, maintain, or recover, governance is usually the missing layer.