# Manual Infrastructure Changes

> Changing infrastructure by hand instead of through code, so its state is undocumented and unreproducible.

Record: `lexicon:manual-infrastructure-changes`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Resource Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/resource-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-manual-infrastructure-changes

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Automated Provisioning](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/automated-provisioning.md) and before [Version Control](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/version-control.md).

## Category

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)

## Negated by

- [Infrastructure as Code](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/infrastructure-as-code.md)

## Linked from

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)