Delivery teams need to take ownership of their entire stack, including infrastructure. This means increased responsibility in the delivery team itself for configuring the infrastructure in a safe, secure and compliant way.
When adopting cloud strategies, most organizations default to a tightly locked-down and centrally managed configuration to reduce risk, but this also creates substantial productivity bottlenecks.
An alternative approach is to allow teams to manage their own configuration and use an
infrastructure configuration scanner to ensure the configuration is safe and secure. Options include open-source scanners such as
prowler for
AWS and
kube-bench for
Kubernetes installations. For more continuous detection, take a look at cloud platforms such as AWS Config Rules among other commercial services.