[Ignite] Taming and Testing Your Cloud Infrastructure Locally, with Confidence

06.02.2024 - Ignite talk at Config Management Camp, Ghent

Transcript

1. Taming and Testing Your Cloud Infrastructure Locally, with Confidence - Anca Ghenade - anca.ghenade@localstack.cloud @tinyg210 localstack.cloud
2. So you’re running your applications on AWS. Now what? localstack.cloud
4. • Setting up an AWS developer sandbox. • You might only be granted access to certain services. Delays
5. Time cost • Spinning up resources on a real cloud environment takes time. • Time spent figuring out the correct configs → your system ships with shortcomings.
6. Expenses • Leaving resources running over night and blow up your budget. • Over provisioning due to bad configuration.
7. Learning • Complexity of AWS services and understanding how they interact with each other. • Learning curve and keeping up with updates.
8. Security • Accidently embedding secrets like credentials or API keys into your IaC config files. • Misconfigurations that lead to different security vulnerabilities.
9. Facing them unprepared… INFRA’S CREATING
10. Some stories from the trenches… Resources didn’t clean up properly
11. Some stories from the trenches… 5 mins later…
12. Some stories from the trenches…
13. You need a tamer’s toolkit
15. “Your application won’t even know the difference”
16. “Your application won’t even know the difference”
18. The true meaning of DEV - OPS is shifting. “You build it, you run it.”
19. https://github.com/tinyg210/opentofu-shipment-list-demo Demo Repo
20. Thank You!