consoleme VS terraform-cdk

Why are you using (very expensive) GPT, or any LLM for that matter, when this was already a solved problem using rulesets? Netflix for example has open source that does this already: https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme

Instead of analyzing your code, you just run your code with no permissions and it automatically detects permission failures and thens open those permissions, with a UI showing you what it did so you can remove any permissions you don't want.

That actually seems much more secure than trying to divine the rules from reading the code.

What value is the LLM adding here?

You may also want to look into Netflix’s ConsoleMe https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme

This is the way. I’ve seen this happen countless times. It’s happened to me too. It’s happened to colleagues.

The worst case I’m aware of from first-hand knowledge was a large cluster of resources that got deployed for a product demo by a sales engineer and forgotten about. Turned into a nice ~$100,000 surprise in the quarterly budget.

Netflix built a tool for managing IAM permission requests as an auditable workflow, called ConsoleMe: https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme

There’s this tool as well https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme among others, check them out and see if the overhead is ok for you all now, but keep it simple to start.

Perhaps Consoleme from Netflix is a useful tool for you?

For sure, you can DM me. Might want to check out https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme too

The tool is in a similar space to iamlive, policy_sentry, and consoleme (all of which are worth checking out too if you're interested in making AWS security easier) but the main points of difference I see are:

After you read the resources, you can stand on the "shoulders of giants" https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme

At first I tested it to deploy an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) with a Node Pool. And step by step, it worked. I even created a Pull Request (PR) in the terraform-cdk repository to add it as an example ☺️.

I'll be trying more sample app deployments with CDK and maybe even explore CDK for Terraform.

You can use CDK with other providers using https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

In my experience, CDK is far better than Pulumi, especially if you're mostly going to be using AWS.

I, personally, prefer Crossplane Composite Functions on top of CDK8S, but had dropped CDKTF due to bloat. You can actually manage Kubernetes updates/upgrade lifecycle with Crossplane, as well.

I was going to recommend Pulumi, but looks like CDK for Terraform is still being kept up to date.

Avoid Pulumi, get directly to source and use https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk