MO-001

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Statement

Crucible SHALL:

Create an infrastructure environment from controlled declarative inputs and reusable baselines within the applicable deployment-time criteriaReproduce an equivalent infrastructure environment from equivalent controlled inputs within defined comparison criteriaApply the security controls required by the selected security baselineSatisfy the acceptance criteria defined by the selected compliance baseline

Source Statement

Crucible SHALL enable rapid creation of repeatable, compliant, and secure infrastructure environments.

Source

Crucible System Requirements Specification, Version 1.1 Draft, Section 2, Mission Objectives, MO-001.

Assessment

The source statement expresses the approved mission objective but does not provide a fully testable requirement formulation.

The following Specification Discipline and Authoring findings apply:

The verb enable identifies facilitation rather than the behavior Crucible performsThe qualifier rapid does not identify a duration, threshold, baseline, or comparison methodThe terms repeatable, compliant, and secure identify separate outcomes that require independently defined criteriaThe source statement combines multiple independently verifiable obligationsThe normalized Statement separates the obligations while preserving the intent of the source statement.

Rationale

Organizations often require substantial manual effort to construct infrastructure environments, apply security configurations, validate compliance, and reproduce the resulting environments.

Crucible reduces this effort by coordinating:

Reusable baselinesMachine Image constructionInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Infrastructure deploymentCompliance assessmentEvidence generationControlled and repeatable workflowsThe resulting process supports Reproducibility, security control application, and compliance evaluation across connected and disconnected operational environments.

Applies To

This requirement applies to:

Image-layer baselinesInfrastructure baselinesMachine Image constructionInfrastructure deploymentProvisioningCompliance assessmentConnected EnvironmentsDisconnected EnvironmentsAir-Gapped EnvironmentsCI/CD pipeline integrationOperational lifecycle management

Verification

Verification SHALL confirm that Crucible creates an infrastructure environment from controlled declarative inputs and reusable baselines within the deployment-time criteria defined for the applicable test.Verification SHALL confirm that repeated execution with equivalent controlled inputs produces equivalent infrastructure environments according to defined comparison criteria.Verification SHALL confirm that the creation workflow applies the security controls required by the selected security baseline.Verification SHALL confirm that the resulting environment satisfies the acceptance criteria defined by the selected compliance baseline.Verification may include:

Baseline-composition testsMachine Image build testsInfrastructure-deployment testsCompliance-scan testsEvidence-generation testsRepeated-build comparisonsRepeated-deployment comparisonsConnected and disconnected workflow demonstrationsEnd-to-end CI/CD pipeline testsThe verification record SHALL identify:

The controlled inputsThe applicable deployment-time criteriaThe environment-comparison criteriaThe selected security baselineThe selected compliance baselineThe observed resultsThe generated Evidence

Traceability

This requirement supports:

FR-CFG-001 through FR-CFG-005FR-IMG-001 through FR-IMG-006FR-DEP-001 through FR-DEP-007FR-AG-001 through FR-AG-005FR-COMP-001 through FR-COMP-010FR-DSO-001 through FR-DSO-006FR-BAS-001 through FR-BAS-004FR-DEPC-001 through FR-DEPC-005KVP-001KVP-003KVP-004KVP-005This requirement also relates to:

ConOps Relationship

The Crucible Concept of Operations describes Phase 1 as a command-line utility invoked through CI/CD pipeline steps.

The Phase 1 workflow:

Composes image-layer and infrastructure baselinesBuilds and hardens Machine ImagesCaptures dependencies and compliance findingsDeploys infrastructureProduces supporting EvidenceThis workflow provides the operational realization of environment creation, Reproducibility, security control application, and compliance evaluation.

Delivery Phase

Phase 1 and subsequent phases

Implementation Status

Not Assessed

Implementation status requires verification against the current Crucible implementation and the applicable acceptance criteria.

Requirement Status

Draft

The source System Requirements Specification identifies Version 1.1 as a draft.

Notes for Editors

This requirement page should retain the stable requirement identifier `MO-001`.

Changes to the Statement SHALL preserve the approved intent of the source requirement.

Material changes should receive review and should update the related Traceability, verification criteria, and source records.

The source wording should remain in the Source Statement section unless the controlling System Requirements Specification changes.

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