Policy Engine

What is Policy Engine?

Cost, security, positioning, and automation policies that adapt to your organizational structure. With Policy Engine you get the security that enterprise IT expects, but at the speed of DevOps.

Cloud Policies

With Policy Engine create and enforce usage policies across your multi-cloud environments, creating "guardrails" that ensure end users can make only the right choices.

"All servers in the PCI PROD environment, released in the US-EAST-1 region, must use ChefServer1"

"All Linux servers in the WEB environment, must use the security group ALLOW_SSH"

"All servers in the DEV/TEST environment should be automatically identified with the LDAP username of the owner and associated cost center."

Lifecycle Policies

With Policy Engine, create application lifecycle policies, start servers, and automate workflows. Take advantage of the Scalr orchestration engine or any configuration management tool such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.

"Whenever a new database server comes online, run an autodiscover script on all front-end servers in the stack"

"Whenever CPU usage is more than 80%, increase the application when it drops below 70%"

"Install Kubernetes and designate a master and program containers based on which servers have SSD storage"

Access Policies

Create role-based access control policies to ensure that end users only present the options and permissions that are relevant to them.

"DBA contractor team members can view the security groups imposed on their infrastructure, but they cannot modify them or create new ones"

"Financial administrators can view budget consumption reports and create financial policies, but may not provision applications"

"PCI administration team members can view and use SSH keys, but may not recover Windows passwords"

"First-week developer team members can only provision pre-built app stacks from the catalog and can't create their own stacks"

Integration Policies

Policy Engine fits into your existing ecosystem and integrates with systems you already have, such as CMDBs, notification, security, and audit systems.

"Whenever a server crashes unexpectedly, send me a PagerDuty notification"

"Log all provisioning requests in ServiceNow"

"Feed the Scalr audit log to Datadog for monitoring and visualization"

"All users must log in through SAML SSO"

Financial Policies

Create a cost-effective multi-cloud environment through application-level financial visibility, budgeting tools, and cost reduction policies.

"Whenever more than 80% of a budget is consumed, notify the relevant project leader"

"All applications in the QA environment have a lifespan of 5 days. To get an extension, users must submit a request with a business justification "

"Automatically terminate all servers used for training"

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

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