VM Chores to Platform Guardrails
Explain how moving from IaaS to PaaS changes the team's control surface and operating work.
What changes when the internal approval app moves from customer-managed VMs to a managed application platform? Before: IaaS VM chores crowd the sprint After: PaaS narrows the operating surface The service model moved up: the team still owns app code and configuration, but no longer directly manages servers, guest operating systems, or raw storage for this workload. The control tradeoff is intentional: because the approval app does not need host-level agents or unusual networking, lower-level VM control was mostly turning into recurring toil. The review checklist changes: patch calendars become platform setting reviews, deployment health checks, least-privilege access, secrets management,…
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