Change management scope

Change management is the practice of monitoring resource configurations to establish and manage a baseline. A baseline is a snapshot at a given point in time of a set of configurations. This snapshot enables you to identify different configuration states of a given configuration item (a snapshot of a particular configuration at a point in time). The purpose of your change management should be to control the changes made to the baseline in a safe and controlled method. The scope of your environment baseline needs to be defined so it doesn’t conflict with any DevSecOps practices that deliver their own change management through a release management process. Any configurations that are not managed by a DevSecOps release management process should be tracked as a change management process. You will also need to determine which services and configurations necessitate change control which are outside of the management of templates or CI/CD operations. Common configurations item for change control can be: