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AWSCloudFormationSamples
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Source Control your AWS CloudFormation templates with GitHub
You can find my workings here: https://github.com/weeyin83/AWSCloudFormationSamples
cfn_nag
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Setting up my own landing zone on AWS
.pre-commit-config.yaml – contains the cfn-lint and cfn_nag pre-commit hooks.
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Guide to Serverless & Lambda Testing — Part 2 — Testing Pyramid
For generic CloudFormation templates, check CFN-NAG.
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AWS Serverless Production Readiness Checklist
If you use CDK, you should implement CDK nag; otherwise, use cfn-nag.
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Make your life easier using Makefiles
cfn_nag
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Creating a Multi-Account CI/CD Pipeline with AWS CodePipeline
CodeBuild will run a linting check against the CloudFormation Template using cfn-lint and will then run cfn-nag to check for patterns that indicate insecure resources within the CloudFormation template.
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App with self-contained infrastructure on AWS
Security checks for the Cloudformation stack using cfn-nag
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Mastering AWS CDK Aspects
cdk-nag contains several Aspects to check your applications for best practices. It is especially useful if you need to be HIPAA-compliant or have other compliance requirements. It is inspired by cfn_nag which is a a tool checking for patterns in your CloudFormation templates.
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how did you get good at iac-cloudformation
cfn-lint and cfn_nag or other tools of that nature to check as you write so you don't need to continually try to deploy only to find that you've done something dumb.
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Source Control your AWS CloudFormation templates with GitHub
There is another tool called cfn_nag that can check your code for potentially any insecure infrastructure. When you read the documentation around this tool, the author says it can check for things such as:
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Install cfn_nag on Windows
I recently wanted to use the cfn-nag tool on some templates I was writing but couldn't find any instructions to install on Windows, but I have found a way to do it.
What are some alternatives?
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
cfn-python-lint - CloudFormation Linter
SonarQube - Continuous Inspection
aws-secure-environment-accelerator - The AWS Secure Environment Accelerator is a tool designed to help deploy and operate secure multi-account, multi-region AWS environments on an ongoing basis. The power of the solution is the configuration file which enables the completely automated deployment of customizable architectures within AWS without changing a single line of code.
vscode-cloudformation-snippets - This extension adds snippets for all the AWS CloudFormation resources into Visual Studio Code.
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code
cloud-custodian - Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
docker-bench-security - The Docker Bench for Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production.
aws-recon - Multi-threaded AWS inventory collection tool with a focus on security-relevant resources and metadata.
gosec - Go security checker
gatekeeper-library - 📚 The OPA Gatekeeper policy library
yamllint - A linter for YAML files.