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I feel like IAM may be the sleeper killer-app of cloud. I self-host a lot of things, but boy oh boy if I were running a company it would be a helluvalotta work
by hamandcheese 2y ago
I feel like IAM may be the sleeper killer-app of cloud.
I self-host a lot of things, but boy oh boy if I were running a company it would be a helluvalotta work to get IAM properly set up.
- sanderjd 2y agoI strongly agree with this and also strongly lament it. I find IAM to be a terrible implementation of a foundationally necessary system. It feels tacked on to me, except now it's tacked onto thousands of other things and there's no way out.
- andrewfromx 2y agolike terraform! isn't pulumi 100% better but there's no way out of terraform.
- pphysch 2y agoThat's essentially why "platform engineering" is a hot topic. There are great FOSS tools for this, largely in the Kubernetes ecosystem. To be clear, authentication could still be outsourced, but authorizing access to (on-prem) resources in a multi-tenant environment is something that "platforms" are frequently designed for.