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title: Operational consideration
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description: Thinking about security and service management early on.
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---
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When we create code and infrastructure for development, it is in preparation for production.
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Breaks in development workflow ultimately delay releases to production. So adequate testing of our code helps ensure that others working with us do not have bad experiences.
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## Continuity
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Continuity of the development workflow is frequently underpinned by
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* applying secure coding practices to ensure we are not leaking secure data or opening our applications to be exploited by bad actors
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* adding feature tests to prove critical functionality is maintained
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* employing health and ping checks to ensure availability in deployments
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* creating anonymized test data that is functionally representative of that in live
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The above headlines are not exhaustive and, depending on our use case, may well become longer.
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This can be summarized as a 'shift left' of security and testing practice into early stages of the software development lifecycle.
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## Configuration
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From `infctl`'s pont of view, it creates for us a `config.json` file at run time if not already present that contains :
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```json
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{
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"log_format": "<full|basic|none>",
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"deployment_file": "<path as specified to this pipeline file>",
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"deployment_type": "<development|pre-production|production where development is the default>",
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"deployment_mode": "json"
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}
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```
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So unless we edit this file, the default `deployment_type` is that of `development`.
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It signifies that we have applied the above working practice.
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Our code and pipelines can be documented, version controlled and checked from development through to production readiness.
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