> The article isn’t clear about it but the 5 minute production app is an ambition, not a reality. Not clear? The sub title to the article is "The 5 minute pro

> The article isn’t clear about it but the 5 minute production app is an ambition, not a reality. Not clear? The sub title to the article is "The 5 minute production app." and further down it includes timings like "8:43pm CET: Pipeline started with the build job. 2 min 33 sec." and "8:48pm CET: Deployed in 1 min 11 sec.". > Setting up IAM is indeed hard. Indeed. It's the iron triangle of devops: Speed, Simple, and Secure (You only get to pick two) > The most workable idea we have so far is having the user run as CloudFormation script to set it up, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy... That's likely the best approach for initializing an AWS account though it boils down to, "Just trust us and run this". I doubt any new user would take the time to expand that CFN template, find the script that it loads (https://vantage-public.s3.amazonaws.com/x-account-role-create-11132020.json https://vantage-public.s3.amazonaws.com/x-account-role-creat...), analyze the resources, and see that it grants read only access to everything every created in your AWS account via a cross-account authorization. Rather than target "Go live in 5-minutes", I think it'd be more worthwhile to target a longer time frame that'd lead to better understanding of the components involved. Yes it's not as sexy as "git push and you're live!", but the selling point is that you end up with a platform that can do anything including running your own resources, not just pushing 12-factor app code.