Risk-Based Review for Infrastructure as Code Pull Requests - DevOps.com

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This article explains how teams can use risk scoring to route infrastructure-as-code pull requests to the right reviewers. It argues that not every change deserves the same review path and that production exposure, rollback difficulty, ownership, and incident history should shape escalation. The piece recommends keeping the scoring model simple, explainable, and tied to visible remediation steps. It also stresses replaying past changes, tracking false positives and latency, and starting in advisory mode before enforcing checks. The core message is to reduce reviewer fatigue while making risky changes easier to spot and safer to approve.

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