Product boundaries
Evaluate proposed infrastructure against explicit product and architecture constraints rather than relying on reviewer memory.
VALIDATE · IAAP GUARD
Validate infrastructure before it merges.
IaaP Guard evaluates infrastructure pull requests against deterministic architecture, policy, security and evidence rules. It gives platform teams a repeatable answer to a deceptively hard question: is this change still consistent with the infrastructure product we intended to operate?
WHY GUARD EXISTS
Automation can be syntactically correct and architecturally wrong.
Infrastructure-as-Code is excellent at expressing desired resources. It does not, by itself, prove that a proposed change preserves product boundaries, network safety, redundancy, encryption, identity, ownership, evidence continuity or the authority model around the change. Guard moves those questions into a deterministic review surface before merge.
WHAT GUARD CHECKS
Architecture and evidence become testable.
Network safety
Detect conflicts and unsafe conditions such as CIDR overlap, route propagation problems and missing high-availability expectations.
Security requirements
Evaluate encryption, identity, ownership, DNS boundaries and other required conditions within Guard's deterministic scope.
Integrity & provenance
Bind validation outcomes to source context and retain evidence digests so later consumers can verify what was actually reviewed.
What changed?
Compare trustworthy prior Guard evidence with the current result and flag material rule or finding changes for renewed review.
No provisioning authority
Guard validates proposed changes. It does not convert a finding into approval, merge, remediation, cloud access or production authority.
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET
Concrete outputs your engineering team can use.
Guard does more than say whether a scan passed. It turns the assessment into review and planning material that can stay tied to the evidence that produced it.
Pull-request checks
Guard publishes PASS, WARNING or FAIL GitHub Checks on the commit being reviewed, with findings and evidence returned to the normal pull-request workflow.
Evidence-backed reports
Teams receive repeatable architecture, security and policy findings that show what rule fired, what evidence was found and why the result matters.
Generated OKRs and key results
Guard can turn repository evidence into an advisory improvement plan written as objectives and key results. These are generated from the findings; Guard does not replace an organization's enterprise OKR system.
Epics, features, stories and tasks
Improvement areas can be mapped into Epics, Features, Stories, acceptance evidence and candidate tasks so teams have a practical path from a finding to backlog-ready work.
What changed since the last review
Guard can compare trusted prior evidence with the current assessment and call out material rule or finding changes that deserve renewed attention.
Human-readable and machine-readable results
Versioned structured reports support downstream tooling while readable summaries give reviewers, architects and product teams something they can work with directly.
Guard does not assign people, run sprints, create deployment authority or automatically apply remediation. It supplies evidence and an advisory plan for the people and systems that own those decisions.
Validated, not deployed.
A successful Guard result is evidence for a decision. Repository owners retain branch protections, approvals, credentials and deployment controls.
THE WORKFLOW
Deterministic feedback where infrastructure changes already happen.
Guard participates in the pull-request workflow without becoming the authority that approves or deploys the change.
Pull Request
A proposed infrastructure change enters the normal GitHub review workflow.
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Normalize
Infrastructure intent enters Guard's bounded deterministic assessment model.
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Evaluate
Versioned architecture, security and evidence rules run against the proposal.
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Report
Findings return with reviewable evidence, source context and provenance.
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Human Decision
Authorized repository and platform controls determine what happens next.
Evidence for a decision. Never a substitute for one.
Guard's deterministic result communicates what it observed inside its bounded scope. Repository owners retain approval, merge, credential and deployment authority.
PASSWARNINGFAILEVIDENCE + PROVENANCE
CUSTOMER-CONTROLLED ADOPTION
Useful validation without hidden infrastructure authority.
Guard's bounded product model avoids repository content writes, cloud credentials, Kubernetes credentials, Terraform/TFE credentials and a persistent customer database for evidence continuity. Installation and support surfaces are designed so customers can retain control over where and how validation participates in their workflow.