PacBot: Enabling Cloud Agility with Automated Compliance and Remediation
For T-Mobile, the purpose of public cloud is to accelerate time-to-value for customers, unlocking developer agility while protecting the business from critical security and compliance issues. This is …
| Talk Title | PacBot: Enabling Cloud Agility with Automated Compliance and Remediation |
| Speakers | Steve Hull (Sr. Director, Digital Customer Experience, T-Mobile), Nicholas Criss (Sr. Manager, Cloud Center of Excellence, T-Mobile) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC North America |
| Conf Tag | |
| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Aug 19-23, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | |
For T-Mobile, the purpose of public cloud is to accelerate time-to-value for customers, unlocking developer agility while protecting the business from critical security and compliance issues. This is a challenge given agility and compliance are typically at odds with one another, especially in the highly dynamic environment of cloud.Nicholas & Steve will present PacBot, a system developed by their team since 2016 and open-sourced in the Fall or 2018. It auto-discovers assets in the cloud and applies software rules (policy-as-code) to continually check compliance. In addition to a rules engine, it includes a big data lake and a strong visualization capability to provide real insight into compliance.Most importantly, PacBot includes the ability to “auto fix” critical issues, both in batch and real-time reaction to events.Nicholas & Steve will demo PacBot and discuss its evolution over three years and the critical process of getting stakeholder buy-in for auto-remediation.
