The DevOps Pendulum: Agility vs. Control
devops.com, Wednesday, August 2,2023
Managing changes to cloud assets is a universal pain felt by many engineering leaders today, despite all of the advancements in tooling and practices like GitOps.
This is because, in reality, it is simply impossible to always have everything completely locked down-we don't live in a utopia with zero incidents. If your engineering organization prevents any changes from being made through the cloud console or to your infrastructure-as-code (IaC) without complying with strict GitOps practices or change management processes via CI/CD, then it's likely you have very frustrated developers-developers who can't troubleshoot or debug in real-time and who have little control in a real-world incident.