Introduction
Organizations where developers are configuring and deploying infrastructure as code during their day-to-day work suffer from several common problems. Due to Terraform’s complexity and the vast amount of cloud services with complex configuration options, developers and platform teams often find themselves with:
- Slow development times and poor developer experience
- Painful manual reviews and long review queue times
- Outages and incidents when improper Terraform config makes it into production
Resourcely is a configuration platform built for platform and security teams, who can build paved roads to production for developers with Blueprints and Guardrails.
Solving your infrastructure configuration bottleneck doesn’t have to be a painful exercise. Consider one of the following modular use cases that can be implemented across just single use case, while growing to meet your entire company’s needs over time.
- Starter Terraform Templates: Resourcely provides starter Terraform templates, called Blueprints, that include various useful features such as default values, knowledge graphs, and helper functions. Blueprints can be customized beyond the starter templates provided by Resourcely, to account for a company’s unique requirements.
Each Blueprint has a dedicated, hosted form that developers can interact with instead of having to interact with Terraform. These features help developers configure and deploy infrastructure with minimal effort.
- Risk Detection: Resourcely can detect risky actions in Terraform, such as destroy operations, and notify the appropriate personnel based on context provided to the CLI. With self-service guardrails, you can configure policies to ensure that the right team is notified when specific actions are taken, such as deleting infrastructure. Not only does this help protect your infrastructure, it cuts through the noise and surfaces only the relevant PRs.
- Flexible Code Generation: Resourcely can generate blocks of Terraform code based on specific conditions, allowing you to include only the necessary code and keep your configuration as minimal as possible.
- Environment-Specific Configurations: Resourcely can adapt configurations based on the environment. For instance, when creating resources in a development environment, you might want a shorter retention period compared to production. All of these settings are configurable, making it easy to customize according to your needs.
- Configuration as Code: Resourcely can be fully configured using its Terraform provider, allowing you to manage your Resourcely setup and manage Blueprints and Guardrails through code. This allows you to apply version control, review, and maintain a historical record for your Resourcely objects.
- CI Monitoring: Resourcely can monitor your CI pipeline to ensure all code is reviewed before being deployed to production. It can notify the appropriate team, such as security or privacy, based on specific conditions.
Conclusion
Resourcely offers a comprehensive set of tools that can significantly enhance your team's infrastructure configuration experience, reliability, and speed. From starter Terraform templates that simplify configuration to safeguards that protect your infrastructure, Resourcely ensures that your team can build and manage standardized infrastructure that complies with your requirements.
By leveraging these features, teams can achieve greater efficiency and remove the pain that comes from manual reviews and triaging outages.
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