Everything as code for your security lifecycle

This post explains the 'everything as code' approach to securing cloud infrastructure at scale, using HashiCorp tools.

• •The average developer-to-security ratio is 100:1, making manual security enforcement impossible without automation
• •Security codification covers four layers: infrastructure, applications, networking, and security (secrets/identity/encryption)
• •Infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform enables repeatable, auditable, and drift-resistant cloud environments
• •Packer automates 'golden' machine image builds to ensure consistent, known-good application baselines
• •Consul provides service discovery, health checking, and identity-based encrypted service-to-service communication