Infrastructure security tasks that developers can automate

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For developers, speed is everything; their productivity depends on it. That’s why security isn’t always their top priority — it’s perceived as a slowdown or a barrier, Guy Eisenkot, senior director of product management for Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Cloud platform, writes on TechBeacon.

This is unfortunate because the cost of proactively securing your code is always less than the cost of downtime, time to patch vulnerabilities, and time to identify damage after a breach. To save time in the long run and quickly deploy secure cloud applications, you need the right tools, processes, and of course, automation.

Here are five manual cloud security tasks that every back-end and infrastructure software developer should automate to create secure, high-quality code.

1. Fixing Misconfigurations in Open Source
Developers and DevOps teams typically rely on open ecuador mobile database modules to quickly scale cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Terraform modules, CloudFormation templates, and Kubernetes Helm charts are all examples of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) building blocks that can be easily shared for reuse:

Terraform has become one of the leading systems for enabling multi-cloud development. Its registry, which in June 2019 contained only 50 modules, now contains more than 6,500 modules;
Helm is the best choice for managing Kubernetes applications, reducing the need to write and manage Kubernetes YAML manually. In the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Survey 2020, 63% of respondents said Helm was their tool for packaging Kubernetes applications;
CloudFormation is AWS-native and enables you to modify AWS resources in a controlled and predictable manner. Using the new AWS CloudFormation Public Registry, you can use third-party extensions to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and application resources without the need for custom scripts or manual processes.