[Initiative]: Infrastructure Lifecycle

### Name

Infrastructure Lifecycle

### Short description

The continuous process of designing, deploying, operating, updating, and decommissioning infrastructure resources.

### Responsible group

TAG Infrastructure

### Does the initiative belong to a subproject?

No

### Subproject name

_No response_

### Primary contact

Dylan Page

### Additional contacts

Bruno Schaatsbergen ( [@bschaatsbergen](https://github.com/bschaatsbergen))
Jochen Zehnder ( [@elft3r](https://github.com/elft3r))

### Initiative description

Develop a framework via a whitepaper for managing the lifecycle of infrastructure in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments based on cloud-native principles. This framework will guide end-users in managing infrastructure to ensure it is secure, resilient, manageable, sustainable, and observable.

Working has already begun on writing the whitepaper, as we are a Working Group under the TAG App Delivery We have progressed recently from the outline stage to the content stage as per TOC tech paper guideline, and would like to continue this work.

https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/infra-lifecycle/charter/

### Deliverable(s) or exit criteria

Develop a framework for managing the lifecycle of infrastructure in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments through a whitepaper.

Future deliverables could include a subproject for Infrastructure Lifecycle or additional initiatives that dig deeper into sub-categories such as Infrastructure-as-Code.