11 Fixing failures
This chapter covers
- Determining how to roll forward failed changes to restore functionality
- Organizing an approach for IaC troubleshooting
- Categorizing repairs for failed changes
We took many chapters to discuss writing and collaborating on infrastructure as code. All of the practices and principles you learned for IaC accumulate to the crucial moment when you push a change, it causes your system to fail, and you need to roll it back! However, IaC doesn’t support rollback. You do not fully revert IaC changes. What does it mean to fix failures if you don’t roll them back?
This chapter focuses on fixing failed changes from IaC. First, we’ll discuss what it means to “revert” IaC changes by rolling forward. Then, you’ll learn ...
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