Using IaC to automate the provisioning of infrastructure removes that task from your devs or admins. They don't need to manually provision and manage infra resources such as operating systems, servers, and storage every time they start deploying or developing an app. With IaC, you provision via templates, which helps enforce rules, policies, and consistency.
There are a bunch of cloud-supplier and third-party tools that automate the enforcement of rules and policies for IaC. All of them, to varying extents, aim at making sure your infrastructure is secure and compliant.
A couple of the better-known solutions are HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Both are advanced-level platforms for implementing complicated applications.
Terraform is an open-source tool that allows you to define and manage your infrastructure as code. You can define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. It includes resource planning, provisioning, and validation. Terraform can also be used with policy as code tools, such as Open Policy Agent, to enforce security policies on IaC.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform enables you to create, share, and manage automation, including for development and operations as well as security and network teams.
The major cloud providers also enter the fray, of course. AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision both AWS and third-party application resources in your cloud environment. You can use either programming languages or a text file to model and provision automatically and securely for all application resources, regions, and accounts. Azure Resource Manager enables you to provision and manage infrastructure and configuration with declarative definition files using JSON templates. And Google Cloud Deployment Manager uses template and configuration files to deploy Google's Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, and Cloud SQL, configured to work together.
Chef InSpec is an open-source tool with human- and machine-readable language for testing and auditing infrastructure as code. It includes a domain-specific language for defining tests and can be used to validate that infrastructure code meets compliance and security requirements.
Pulumi bills itself as "guaranteeing the infrastructure software supply chain." It has integrations with the major CI/CD platforms, enabling validation of change through testing of built-in policies.
And Spacelift's calling card says that it is "the most flexible IaC management platform."
Application security is a significant challenge for software engineers, as well as for security and DevOps professionals. It comprises the measures taken to improve the security of online services and websites against malicious attacks by finding, repairing, and preventing security weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Using IaC to automate the provisioning of infrastructure removes that task from your devs or admins. They don't need to manually provision and manage infra resources such as operating systems, servers, and storage every time they start deploying or developing an app. With IaC, you provision via templates, which helps enforce rules, policies, and consistency.
There are a bunch of cloud-supplier and third-party tools that automate the enforcement of rules and policies for IaC. All of them, to varying extents, aim at making sure your infrastructure is secure and compliant.
A couple of the better-known solutions are HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Both are advanced-level platforms for implementing complicated applications.
Terraform is an open-source tool that allows you to define and manage your infrastructure as code. You can define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. It includes resource planning, provisioning, and validation. Terraform can also be used with policy as code tools, such as Open Policy Agent, to enforce security policies on IaC.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform enables you to create, share, and manage automation, including for development and operations as well as security and network teams.
The major cloud providers also enter the fray, of course. AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision both AWS and third-party application resources in your cloud environment. You can use either programming languages or a text file to model and provision automatically and securely for all application resources, regions, and accounts. Azure Resource Manager enables you to provision and manage infrastructure and configuration with declarative definition files using JSON templates. And Google Cloud Deployment Manager uses template and configuration files to deploy Google's Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, and Cloud SQL, configured to work together.
Chef InSpec is an open-source tool with human- and machine-readable language for testing and auditing infrastructure as code. It includes a domain-specific language for defining tests and can be used to validate that infrastructure code meets compliance and security requirements.
Pulumi bills itself as "guaranteeing the infrastructure software supply chain." It has integrations with the major CI/CD platforms, enabling validation of change through testing of built-in policies.
And Spacelift's calling card says that it is "the most flexible IaC management platform."