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How CozyHawk works · Blueprint #1 walkthrough

One governed change, start to finish.

This is one real change, end to end, walked through Blueprint #1: the governed cloud foundation. Every screen below is the real product.

One loop, one gate

Every change travels the same loop, and feedback sends it around again until it's approved. Destroy travels it too. The nine steps below walk it in detail.

Propose change

Configure

Run plan · locked

Review

Request changes or comments send it back through Configure → Plan → Review.

Approved

Apply

Evidence

Start from a blueprint or a selection of modules

Pick a blueprint: a battle-tested combination of catalog modules with recommended settings. Or pick your own modules, or describe what you need and let CozyHawk compose one. Nothing is created yet, and nothing will be without a plan, a review, and your approval.

1. Start from a blueprint or a selection of modulesChoose your start: your modules and the catalog, side by side. On screen: “Pick modules, see the plan, and build through review.”

Tune the configurations in the editor

Every module arrives with smart defaults a senior platform engineer would pick: CIDR blocks, guardrails, permission sets, session durations. Keep them or change them, in a guided form or straight in the code: one editor across the whole platform. What you tune is the exact infrastructure as code your selection composes to, upstream module source and version in plain sight, headed for your Git. Your code, not our black box.

2. Tune the configurations in the editorThe module IDE: tune the configurations in the editor. On screen: “Nothing deploys until it clears review.”

Propose the change

Wrap your configuration in a proposed change: the form you submit is where the evidence record starts. Two ways in: build the configuration right there inside the proposed change, or compose it first in the configurations area and pull it in. Either way, the proposal states what is changing before anything runs.

3. Propose the change

The proposed-change form: your configuration pulled in, on the record before anything runs.

Run the plan: it locks the exact code

Plans are free and un-gated: run as many as you like. A successful plan locks the exact code and binds the change to that run. What you review next is exactly, provably, what will apply.

4. Run the plan: it locks the exact code“Plans are free and un-gated.” A successful plan locks the editor to exactly what you’ll review.

Review the change

The reviewer sees the plan output, the locked code, and every file the change touches: exactly what it provisions, before it deploys. Working solo? You self-review, and it’s recorded, so the paper trail starts on day one.

5. Review the changeReview: the plan output and the locked code. “Your change, reviewed before it deploys.”

Approval opens the gate

Review unlocks apply, and approval isn’t a blanket yes. Only the approved change can deploy, in the environment you choose, and nothing else. Until an approval exists, apply stays locked. You’re looking at the gate doing its job.

6. Approval opens the gateThe gate at work. On screen: “Approved changes deploy from here. Nothing runs without an approval.”

Apply through the gate, and watch it run

With review approved and an environment granted, apply opens, for that change, in that environment. The run streams into the workspace as real terminal output: each unit landing, in order, to your own cloud.

7. Apply through the gate, and watch it runReal run output, line by line, through “apply completed: active.” Not a spinner.

Evidence, for everything that ran

Every run leaves one durable record: who proposed the change, who approved it, the exact plan, every file it touched, and exactly what it created. “What changed, who approved it, did it succeed” always has an answer, exportable when someone asks.

8. Evidence, for everything that ranOne durable record per change: every file it touched and exactly what it created.

Destroy passes the same gate

Tearing down is a change like any other, through the same gates: you propose it, run the plan of the destroy, the review approves it, and only then does the destroy itself run, gated and recorded. A platform you can’t safely take down isn’t a platform. Leaving is always possible, and we built for it.

9. Destroy passes the same gatePlan the destroy, review and approve it, then the destroy runs through the same gate.

The same loop for every change after, and for destroy.

Propose, configure, plan, review, approve, apply, evidence. The discipline you just read is the product. There is no other path to your cloud.