Cloud Native Provisioning and Infrastructure

17 January 2025 - less than 1 min read time
Tags: Infrastructure DevOps Automation

Cloud Native Provisioning

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

1. Tools and Platforms

• Terraform
• Pulumi
• AWS CloudFormation
• Azure Resource Manager

2. Best Practices

• Version control
• Modular design
• State management
• Security considerations

3. Multi-Cloud Strategy

• Provider-agnostic design
• Resource mapping
• Cost optimization
• Compliance management

Automation

1. CI/CD Pipeline

• Jenkins
• GitLab CI
• GitHub Actions
• ArgoCD

2. Configuration Management

• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• SaltStack

3. Policy as Code

• Open Policy Agent
• Cloud Custodian
• HashiCorp Sentinel
• AWS Config Rules

Security and Compliance

1. Identity Management

• RBAC
• Service accounts
• Authentication
• Authorization

2. Security Controls

• Network policies
• Security groups
• Compliance frameworks
• Audit logging

3. Secret Management

• HashiCorp Vault
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Azure Key Vault
• Sealed Secrets

More detailed content about provisioning practices coming soon!