MO-003 — Cloud-Agnostic Deployment

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Original Requirement

The system SHALL provide cloud-agnostic deployment capabilities.[C2]

Assessment of Original Requirement

The Original Requirement preserves the approved mission objective but does not express independently testable normative statements.

The following Specification Discipline and Authoring findings apply:

The system does not use the defined system name CrucibleProvide is a weak verb that does not identify an observable behavior performed by CrucibleCloud-agnostic refers to Cloud Agnosticism, but the Original Requirement does not identify the dependencies that Crucible must limitDeployment capabilities does not identify the deployable subject, deployment inputs, target Deployment Platforms, or required deployment outcomeCloud Agnosticism limits dependence on the proprietary interfaces, services, data formats, software development kits, and operational mechanisms of a particular Cloud Provider.

A cloud-agnostic architecture expresses common deployment capabilities through provider-independent concepts, contracts, and interfaces. Provider-specific implementations translate those capabilities into mechanisms supported by each target Deployment Platform.

The Original Requirement does not identify:

The Deployment Platforms across which Crucible must operateThe minimum number of Deployment Platforms required to demonstrate Cloud AgnosticismThe deployable subjectThe provider-independent deployment informationThe provider-specific dependencies that Crucible must limitThe boundary between provider-independent Crucible behavior and provider-specific implementation behaviorWhether the same Crucible Description applies across the target Deployment PlatformsWhether the same Infrastructure Baseline applies across the target Deployment PlatformsThe permitted scope of provider-specific variationThe Original Requirement therefore requires:

Replacement of the system with the defined system name CrucibleReplacement of provide with observable Crucible behaviorIdentification of the target Deployment PlatformsIdentification of the provider-independent deployment informationIdentification of the proprietary dependencies that Crucible must limitDefinition of the boundary between provider-independent behavior and provider-specific implementationDefinition of the permitted provider-specific variationSeparation of the independently testable cloud-agnostic deployment outcomesConfirmation that the derived requirements collectively preserve the complete intent of MO-003The decomposition preserves MO-003 as the stable parent requirement identifier. Each proposed replacement requirement receives a lettered identifier and a separate leaf requirement page.

Proposed Statements

The Original Requirement is decomposed into the following proposed replacement requirements:

Requirement Status

Issues

The following unresolved issues affect the decomposition of MO-003:

Notes for Editors

This page should retain the stable parent requirement identifier MO-003.

This page is a non-leaf requirement page and retains a trailing :start in its namespace.

The child requirements are leaf requirement pages and omit a trailing :start from their namespaces.

The explicit child-page links should remain while the proposed decomposition is being developed. After the child pages have been created and finalized, the explicit links may be removed because the indexmenu displays the child requirement pages contained within the MO-003 namespace.

This page preserves:

The Original RequirementThe assessment of the Original RequirementThe reason for decompositionTraceability to the proposed replacement requirementsThe unresolved cross-cutting issues affecting the decompositionThe supersession decisionThe derived requirements should distinguish provider-independent Crucible behavior from provider-specific implementation behavior.

Cloud Agnosticism does not prohibit every provider-specific mechanism. Provider-specific implementations may translate provider-independent deployment information into mechanisms supported by a target Deployment Platform, provided that those mechanisms do not become required elements of the provider-independent Crucible model.

The Original Requirement should not be marked as superseded until the requirement owner:

Approves the proposed decompositionApproves the child requirementsIdentifies the target Deployment PlatformsDefines the permitted provider-specific variationConfirms that the child requirements collectively preserve the complete approved intent of MO-003Confirms that no additional child requirements are requiredAfter supersession, this page should remain as the parent Traceability record and should continue to preserve the Original Requirement and its assessment.

Material changes to the decomposition should update the child requirements, Requirement Status, Issues, and Traceability records.

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