Challenges
- Security by Design: Integrating security measures at every phase of development and deployment.
- Automation: Reducing manual interventions to minimize errors and enforce security protocols.
- Continuous Monitoring: Ensuring real-time monitoring for quick detection and response to issues.
Solution
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Using Terraform to automate and manage infrastructure, ensuring consistent and secure deployments.
- Secure CI/CD Pipeline: Utilizing Jenkins, SonarQube, and Aqua Trivy to automate code quality checks, security analysis, and vulnerability scanning.
- Kubernetes for Deployment: Deploying applications in a Kubernetes cluster with security audits to ensure compliance and safety.
- Monitoring: Implementing Prometheus and Grafana for system and application-level monitoring.
Technologies Used
- Kubernetes: For container orchestration.
- Jenkins: CI/CD automation.
- SonarQube: Code quality and security analysis.
- Aqua Trivy: Vulnerability scanning.
- Nexus Repository: Artifact storage.
- Docker and Docker Hub: Containerization and image registry.
- Kubeaudit: Kubernetes cluster auditing.
- Grafana and Prometheus: Monitoring and alerting.
- Terraform: Infrastructure as Code for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
- GCP: Cloud platform for hosting infrastructure.