One checkbox on every form: validateOnly. Tick everything, plan the whole stack, change nothing.

validateOnly everywhere: plan mode for infrastructure

Terraform has plan. Kubernetes has –dry-run. Your vRO workflows have nothing — unless you give them a validateOnly input and make the wrapper cascade it. A short argument for the single most valuable checkbox in the lab factory, with the failures it caught.

16 September 2026 · 4 min · Adam Stretton