# Infrastructure as Code / Tooling Complexity

> "infrastructure-as-code" (resource-core layer) is traded against "Tooling Complexity" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Tooling Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:infrastructure-as-code-tooling-complexity`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-infrastructure-as-code-tooling-complexity

## tensions-with

- [Infrastructure as Code](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/infrastructure-as-code.md)
- [Tooling Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/tooling-complexity.md)