Infrastructure Documentation Template
Make infrastructure understandable to new engineers.
Added October 15, 2026. Written with AI assistance and checked for clarity and placeholders; not reviewed by a lawyer, accountant, clinician or other professional. How these prompts are made
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Create a documentation template for infrastructure. The systems to document: [SYSTEMS]. Audience: [AUDIENCE]. Where documentation is stored: [DOC_LOCATION]. Provide a template with sections: purpose and owners, architecture diagram description (as text or diagram-as-code), components with links, data flows, dependencies, environments, access and permissions, deploy and rollback, monitoring and alerts, known risks, cost drivers, runbooks, and change history. Include prompts under each heading telling the author what to write. Add a freshness rule (review date, owner) and a checklist for a documentation review. Provide a filled example for a fictional small web service in about 150 words. Add a short guide to keeping documentation close to code, including which sections are generated automatically and which are written by hand. Provide a ten-question onboarding test that a new engineer should be able to answer from the documentation alone, and a rule that any incident which reveals a documentation gap results in an update within a week.
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