by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 6, 2021 | AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Security, Strategy, Systems
Hey – I’m back! I’ve been heads-down learning what Cloud teams need to deliver to AWS securely and make IAM usable, and building that into a business delivered via SaaS & infrastructure code libraries: k9 Security. I’d like to share my... 
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... 