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Code Quality in the Cloud
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has transformed how you deploy and manage cloud infrastructure.
- However, IaC has also introduced a new set of security challenges, leading to numerous incidents caused by IaC misconfigurations.
- Fortunately, there are tools that can help identify critical vulnerabilities early in development, such as SonarQube.
- This article focuses on Azure, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform as examples of IaC issues. Each critical issue, its risks, and how to fix it, is highlighted.
- Code GenAI is a great help to start code artifacts and produce boilerplate code, but it also needs to be reviewed to avoid the introduction of unexpected issues and vulnerabilities.
- SonarQube Cloud telemetry provides the most hit issues regarding IaC, with more than 6 million hits in total across all projects analyzed.
- Key issues include restricting public access to resources, applying the least privilege to IAM roles, avoiding running containers as root, and defining resource requests and limits.
- In addition to security, maintaining code quality in IaC is essential. Well-structured, maintainable IaC ensures teams can quickly adapt to new requirements and maintain a robust, secure infrastructure.
- Finally, the article looks at the accuracy of Code GenAI for IaC artifacts by conducting an experiment using Github Copilot and Amazon Q as code assistants.
- Combining high-quality code with automated tooling is the key to avoiding costly security mishaps.
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