Learn how to create safer and more secure production environments by implementing Zero Touch Prod (ZTP) principles and tooling. This course focuses on mitigating risks caused by human errors or malicious insider actors through automation, safe proxies, and audited break-glass. The course covers topics such as reliable automation, transient access, peer review, proxy approval, and assessing adoption rates. The intended audience for this course includes professionals working in site reliability engineering, production operations, or anyone interested in enhancing the security of production environments.
Zero Touch Prod - Towards Safer and More Secure Production Environments
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Scenarios
Reliable Automation
Humans
We wield big power
Responsibility and temptation
Assumptions
Who can run
Transient access
Unilateral Access
Peer Review
Proxy Approval
Assessing and tracking adoption
Conclusion
Proxy Benefits
Quote
Who defines security checks
Ratelimiting
Adoption rate
Open source
Taught by
USENIX
