Milestones 6–7 retrospective
What the v1.0.0 release demonstrates
- One provider-locked product model can serve AWS and Azure without pretending their resource and identity models are interchangeable.
- Deterministic normalization and stable policy feedback make API, CLI, portal, and proposal review explain the same request.
- A GitHub review boundary creates a useful separation between requesting an environment and changing a cloud account or subscription.
- Simulation gives a reproducible local evaluation without credentials or cost.
- Provider-specific Terraform roots, OPA policy, protected workflow guards, containers, and Helm can be validated without authenticating to a provider.
What remains deliberately outside the demo
The release does not claim live cloud validation. Terraform modules, bootstrap, remote state, OIDC trust, protected plan/apply, drift, rollback, and destroy are implemented as code/definitions but require operator-owned infrastructure and approval. Proposal state is in memory and GitHub approval remains external.
Lessons and next validation
The next product increment should add durable proposal/audit persistence and pull-request publication. A future operator acceptance pass should prove least privilege, state recovery, budget enforcement, destroy safety, drift detection, and incident runbooks independently for AWS and Azure.