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Patterns to refactor infrastructure as code for compliance
- Platform engineers in organizations may face challenges with platform sprawl, leading to fragmented workflows and difficulties in managing compliance and security across multiple platforms.
- Refactoring applications, infrastructure, and security using new patterns and workflows can help standardize practices and streamline compliance at scale.
- Standardizing practices for lower risk and stronger compliance includes efforts like policy as code and principles of immutability.
- Refactoring for standardization can involve abstracting workflows, importing existing infrastructure onto new platforms using Terraform, or migrating resources to newer platforms.
- Policy as code automates policy enforcement related to security, compliance, cost controls, and operational resilience for infrastructure.
- Policy as code can be used to manage policies through software delivery pipelines and tests infrastructure configuration for conformance.
- Static analysis in policy as code provides faster feedback on Terraform code alignment with organizational requirements.
- Dynamic analysis in policy as code checks live infrastructure for policy conformance and identifies configuration drift.
- Using immutability in migrations helps manage changes with minimal disruption by creating new resources instead of updating existing ones directly.
- Policy as code and immutability together speed up risk discovery, standardization efforts, and reduce remediation time for security and compliance issues.
- Applying policy as code and immutability principles can help organizations refactor infrastructure, standardize platforms, and minimize risks associated with migrations.
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