Deployment Validation

Features

• Configuration analysis and schema definition
• Runtime validation and environment-specific rules
• Secure configuration handling with encryption
• Automated documentation generation from schemas
• Cloud architecture expertise for multi-cloud environments

Use Cases

• Validating application configuration files before deployment
• Ensuring consistency of configurations across development, staging, and production environments
• Implementing secure secrets management for configuration values
• Generating reference documentation for configuration options
• Designing secure and scalable cloud infrastructure

Non-Goals

• Performing actual deployments or infrastructure changes
• Directly managing cloud resources outside of architectural design and validation
• Replacing comprehensive CI/CD pipelines, but rather complementing them with configuration-focused checks

Workflow

1. Analyze existing configuration structure and identify validation needs.
2. Define and apply schema validation using JSON Schema.
3. Perform environment-specific validation based on predefined rules.
4. Test configurations using automated test suites.
5. Apply configuration migrations and secure sensitive values.
6. Generate documentation and review security reports.

Practices

• Configuration Management
• Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud Architecture
• Security Best Practices

Prerequisites

• Claude Code environment
• Access to cloud provider credentials (for `cloud-architect` agent)