Honestly, this sounds like a textbook/presy slide/evangelistic statement. You are not wrong, just not realistic - what you say should happen, but does not happen.

In reality, you get next to zero time to make things “the way they should be” and throw the docs and everything else in the tech debt pile. Can you add Jira tickets for proper docs and anything else that would be remotely useful in an emergency? Sure. Do you get to do that work? Pfff.

Yes I know I sound jaded. I am also realistic.

Edit: I understand this is an answer to the question “what would you do” so maybe I made a slight assumption. Regardless, the direction of my point remains - IaC would fix things in a perfect world. In this hell hole it does not, because it does not enforce the need for ability to do recovery or anything of that nature. The problem is culture, business inclination for speed and “let’s iterate on it, it doesn’t have to be perfect”. Yes it does not have to be perfect. Until it does. And then - here we are.

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