6 Questions
True or false: Infrastructure as code is the only way to manage an infrastructure.
False
True or false: Configuration management tools like Ansible are used to create an infrastructure from scratch.
False
True or false: IAC security best practices include avoiding complexity in your code.
True
True or false: Hard coding secrets into your IAC code is a safe practice.
False
True or false: Security risks with IAC can be handled more easily when using multiple cloud services and environments.
False
True or false: Enforcing the principle of least privilege access will help protect data and systems from unauthorized access.
True
Study Notes
- Infrastructure as code is a way to write down the details of an infrastructure so that it can be managed more easily.
- Traditional IT methods, such as deploying applications on servers, are slow and expensive.
- Infrastructure as code can be used to automate these processes, making them faster and more consistent.
- Configuration management tools, such as Ansible, puppet, Chef, Saltstack, can be used to manage an existing infrastructure that has been provisioned with infrastructure as code.
- IAC refers to the configuration of the cloud, and security refers to the protection of these configurations.
- Security risks with IAC are more difficult to handle when you start using multiple cloud services and environments.
- IAC security best practices include scanning for misconfiguration and automating security scanning.
- Prevent hard coding secrets into your IAC code and reduce the time and impact of code leaks.
- Enforcing the principle of least privilege access is key to protecting your data and systems from unauthorized access.
- Making use of security settings and policies as part of your security posture, hardening authentication, and enforcing SOD established security protocols will help to protect your data.
- Code that is easy to troubleshoot and understand will make it easier to identify and fix any security issues.
- Avoiding complexity in your code will make it easier to maintain and troubleshoot.
Test your knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and security best practices with this quiz. Explore concepts such as automation, cloud configuration, and security risks, and learn about best practices for securing your infrastructure as code.
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