EXTENSIBLE CHANGE CONTROL MANAGEMENT

Extensible change control management for development and deployment of applications is described. A change control manager may register plugin components, including requester, approver and performer components, to process changes to a resource of a resource type, where registering is performed responsive to request(s) received via programmatic interface(s). Upon receiving a change request from the requester component, the change control manager may send the change request to the approver component to approve the change request and, responsive to notification of approval from the approver component, the change control manager may then send the change request to the performer component to implement the requested change. The change control manager and the various components each send and/or receive change requests encoded in a standardized schema for the resource type, the standardized schema independent of the implementation of the resource and the means of implementing changes to the resource by the performer component.