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Platform & DevOps·Infrastructure described in a file

the team's standard service takes six inputs and produces thirty resources, and nobody writes the thirty by hand any more.

Infrastructure module

Also calledmodule, reusable module, component

A parameterised, reusable unit of infrastructure configuration with declared inputs and outputs. It is how a platform team encodes an opinionated default and how a golden path becomes a thing you can call rather than a document. The failure mode is the module with forty inputs, which is a leaky abstraction that has all the indirection of a module and none of the opinion.

Commonly confused with