One of the great things about using the cloud is how easy it is to spin up resources and use them. The downside is it is really easy to spin up resources and forget about them. Sprawl becomes a real problem. You waste money if you fail to shut them down when you finish with them or even overnight. And it isn’t just costs. Managing a cloud infrastructure can be a real pain. Who spun this up? What project is it for? Does it need to be shut down? When? Shouldn’t it be encrypted? Cloud Custodian is an easy-to-use framework that allows simple YAML files to specify how to gather, filter,...
Gene Gotimer
DevOps Engineer
Praeses, LLC
Gene Gotimer is a DevSecOps Engineer with Praeses, LLC, helping to build products for the US Air Force and other government clients. He loves playing with new tools, focusing on agile processes, making development more secure, and automating everything. Gene considers himself a developer but usually focuses on DevSecOps practices such as continuous integration, repeatable builds, unit testing, automated testing, security tools, and automated deployments. He spends a lot of time helping build security and automated infrastructure into build processes, incrementally improving and moving teams towards DevSecOps. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each depends on the other two, making agile and DevSecOps crucial to software development.