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Infrastructure-as-Code Review Checklist

Create quality review criteria for Terraform, CloudFormation, or Kubernetes manifests.

Updated June 2026
The prompt
Build IaC review checklist for {{iac_tool}}:

Resources: {{resource_list}}
Complexity: {{complexity_level}}
Compliance: {{compliance_requirements}}
Team maturity: {{team_level}}

Create checklist covering:
1. Syntax and validation (linting, plan output)
2. Security (secrets management, IAM policies, network isolation)
3. Cost optimization (right-sizing, reserved capacity)
4. Disaster recovery (backup, multi-region, failover)
5. Monitoring/observability (alarms, logging, tracing)
6. Documentation (variable descriptions, output docs)
7. Testing (unit tests, integration tests, smoke tests)
8. Code organization (modularity, DRY principles)
9. Versioning and drift detection
10. Performance (resource limits, scaling policies)
11. Tool-specific best practices

Format as {{review_format}}.
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Variables

IaC tool (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Helm)
Types of resources being managed
Complexity (simple stack, multi-region, multi-cloud)
Compliance needs (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.)
Team IaC maturity (beginner, intermediate, advanced)
Format (checklist, scorecard, markdown, Asana)

Details

Author

AI Khazna

License

Security

Type

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