The "pluggable convergence engines" is what we've built in Gyro[1] for this very reason. We wanted to have more control over how changes are made in production.
An example is doing blue/green deployments where you want to build a new web/application layer, pause to validate it (or run some external validation), then switch to that layer and deleted the old layer. All while having the ability to quickly roll back at any stage. In Gyro, we allow for this with workflows[2].
There are many other areas we allow to be extended. The language itself can be extended with directives[3]. In fact, some of the core features like loops[4] and conditionals are just that, extensions.
It's also possible to implement the articles concept of "non-destructive prod" by implementing a plugin that hooks into the convergence engines (we call it the diff engine) events and prevents deletions[5].
We envision folks using all these extension points to do creative things. For example, it's possible to write a directive such as "@protect: true" that can be applied to any resource and would prevent it from ever being destroyed using the extension points described above.
An example is doing blue/green deployments where you want to build a new web/application layer, pause to validate it (or run some external validation), then switch to that layer and deleted the old layer. All while having the ability to quickly roll back at any stage. In Gyro, we allow for this with workflows[2].
There are many other areas we allow to be extended. The language itself can be extended with directives[3]. In fact, some of the core features like loops[4] and conditionals are just that, extensions.
It's also possible to implement the articles concept of "non-destructive prod" by implementing a plugin that hooks into the convergence engines (we call it the diff engine) events and prevents deletions[5].
We envision folks using all these extension points to do creative things. For example, it's possible to write a directive such as "@protect: true" that can be applied to any resource and would prevent it from ever being destroyed using the extension points described above.
[1] https://github.com/perfectsense/gyro [2] https://gyro.dev/guides/workflows [3] https://gyro.dev/extending/directive/ [4] https://gyro.dev/guides/language/control-structures.html [5] https://github.com/perfectsense/gyro/blob/master/core/src/ma...