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IaC Guardrails - Resource Destroy Protection

Resource Destroy Protection

iac.resource-destroy-protection

Ensures stateless infrastructure resources (EC2 instances, load balancers, networking) have lifecycle { prevent_destroy = true } to prevent accidental destruction of critical infrastructure.

iac infrastructure prevent_destroy stateless ec2

Compatible Integrations

This guardrail works with the following integrations. Click to see how to use Resource Destroy Protection with each collector.

Enable This Guardrail

Add the parent policy to your lunar-config.yml to enable this guardrail.

📄 lunar-config.yml
policies:
  - uses: github://earthly/lunar-lib/policies/iac@v1.0.0
    include: [resource-destroy-protection]
    # with: ...

How This Guardrail Works

This guardrail is part of the IaC Guardrails policy. It evaluates data collected by integrations and produces a pass/fail check with actionable feedback.

When enabled, this check runs automatically on every PR and in AI coding workflows, providing real-time enforcement of your engineering standards.

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1
Integrations Gather Data
Collectors extract metadata from code, CI pipelines, tool outputs, and scans
2
{ } Centralized as JSON
All data merged into each component's unified metadata document
3
This Guardrail Checks Current
Resource Destroy Protection runs and provides pass/fail feedback
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IaC Guardrails

This guardrail is part of the IaC Guardrails policy, which includes 4 guardrails for deployment and infrastructure.

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