by Stephen Kuenzli | Jan 8, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Strategy
When I architected my SaaS’ deployment platform and delivery pipeline, I specifically sought to: maximize Aspects of a High Performance Software Delivery Processminimize components and platforms and offload as much undifferentiated, heavy lifting to focus my... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jan 6, 2020 | DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Strategy
To escape The DevOps Organization Build Trap, I suggested that you minimize the distinct sets of components your organization uses to deliver and operate software. Those components represent a dependency tree and are integrated, enhanced, and worked-around by your... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Nov 25, 2019 | AWS, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Security
Why is AWS IAM so @!#^$!# hard?One of my favorite Directors of Cloud Platform AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a security tool that controls access what AWS API actions that Principals (roles, users) are allowed to perform on which AWS resources: an S3... by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 8, 2019 | DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Secrets
Reading Time: 2.5 minutes I’m getting internal reviews and putting the finishing touches on the Secret Delivery Research report, which I plan to publish this week. Today I’ll try to help with one of the biggest challenge DevOps practitioners face when... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | May 6, 2019 | Infrastructure As Code
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes Previously, we worked through how ‘infrastructure as code’ tools convert desired state into actual resources, in general. IaC tools construct a model of the desired state of your resources, merge information about what... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | May 3, 2019 | DevOps, Infrastructure As Code
What do we want? Compute resources!When do we want them?Now!Every team I’ve worked with We usually don’t care about the details of how those resources come about, as long as we get what we want. Here’s a ‘real world’ analog… When... 