InfraSec Practice

Infrastructure and security engineering (InfraSec) is the practice of building secure, robust systems that are foundational to having reliable applications and services. While infrastructure as code is a core area for this practice, it also involves system design, incident response, and a number of other fields.

Theory

• InfraSec Practice Charter - How we think about the Solution8 InfraSec Practice.
• Good Infrastructure - A Philosophy — How we think about building good infrastructure.
• 🔒 InfraSec "Book" Club - Talk and Article Suggestions — Talks and articles we 💖.

Practice

• Azure — Our primary cloud provider.
• Terraform — Our primary infrastructure as code (IaC) tool.
• CI/CD at Solution8 — Guiding stars for building CI/CD, the Solution8 way.
• Ansible — For when we have to build non-container based images.

Education recommendations

Things to help you level up your skills.

• Professional development recommendations

Useful Repo Templates

To get you up and running faster, we have created a few template repos. Please feel free to submit PRs and help us stay up to date!

• Terraform Module
• Docker container
• Golang CLI tool

Tutorials

Azure

• Setting Up Your Azure User — How to set up your Azure user in the Solution8 internal infrastructure.
• Azure Bootstrap — Getting started with Azure.

CI/CD

• Honeycomb CircleCi Metrics - How to add Honeycomb to CircleCi for build metrics.

Security

• One-Time Passwords — How to set up one-time passwords for GitHub with 1Password.

Other topics

• Alert Providers
• Project Bootstrap Guide
• Project Teardown Guide
• SSL Certificates