Immutable Infrastructure / Deploy Time
Kind: tension
Record: tension:deploy-time-immutable-infrastructure
Canonical: Schema
"immutable-infrastructure" (resource-core layer) is traded against "Deploy Time" (resource-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Deploy Time" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Configuration Externalization / Config Sprawl and before Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) / Excessive Fragmentation.