BSides Iowa 2018: "Immutable Architecture and Ruthless Automation"
Channel: BSidesIowa
Date: 2018-04-15

BSides Iowa 2018 - Track 1
Speaker: Ben Schmitt

What the hell is immutable architecture and why does it matter? In cloud environments, it means treating your servers like cattle, not like pets. You deploy them and you don’t touch them until it is time for new ones. You knock them over, spawn new ones and since all of this is load balanced and your services are stateless, you get fresh servers without downtime. What’s more…if you monitor them, any interactive use is rogue. Let’s discuss this in-practice and cover the benefits related to security. If course, this is enabled through ruthless automation and this means embracing git, python/ruby/other and apis is the new normal. If we can automate things, software can become a force multiplier and we can monitor things differently.