Infrastructure As Code
Building a business with continuous delivery and Serverless
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 experience in how continuous delivery and serverless supported that endeavor. I hope this experience
Continuous Delivery with Serverless, CircleCI, and Lambda: The Good, Bad, and the YAML
Our Serverless continuous delivery pipeline lets us achieve Elite levels of Software Delivery Performance.
Minimize your delivery pipeline and platform dependencies
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 team to meet your organization’s requirements on your dime. While all delivery pipelines and deployment platforms
Why is AWS IAM So Hard?
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 bucket, EC2 instance, DynamoDB table, etc. IAM is really
Bootstrapping Trust – Terraform+VMWare+Chef
Lack of understanding how to deliver secrets to applications securely is the biggest challenge identified by DevOps practitioners in the Secret Delivery and Audit Practice study. This post describes how you can deliver secrets securely when using VMWare, Terraform, and Chef.
How Terraform models the state of resources
Terraform’s magic is in how it models resources and tracks dependencies within in a dependency graph.
Converging Infrastructure to a Desired state
This post describes the process infrastructure as code tools like Terraform use to ‘converge’ the real world to the state you declared in your code.
Concept: Infrastructure as Code
When you adopt “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC), you manage infrastructure by defining the desired state of your infrastructure in source files and use a tool to realize those infrastructure resources.