Save Big on Coursera Plus. 7,000+ courses at $160 off. Limited Time Only! Grab it Explore strategies for managing production environments and handling emergencies in this 32-minute conference talk from All Things Open 2023. Learn how to balance automation with the need for manual interventions in critical situations. Discover techniques for controlling drift between development and production environments using infrastructure as code, implementing temporary access protocols for incident response, and applying immutability principles to support rollback and roll-forward patterns. Gain insights into reconciling manual break-glass repairs with automated scripts and infrastructure as code. Develop skills to prioritize automation while maintaining secure processes for applying manual fixes to production environments when necessary.