Imagine clicking on a firewall rule and seeing not just its configuration, but why it exists.
That is the future infrastructure should move toward.
A rule can show source, destination, port, and protocol.
It rarely shows who requested it, which system depends on it, what incident created it, when it should expire, or what breaks if it is removed.
Infrastructure should expose:
AI systems asked to reason about infrastructure need more than state. They need context.
If infrastructure cannot explain itself, AI must infer.
The next generation of infrastructure will not merely be declarative.
It will be explainable.