Before you can dive into deploying your application you need to create a safe environment for your application to be deployed in. This starts with understanding some basics around making good security decisions, so this next topic is about how to make a good “fence”.

In my last post I intentionally jumped the gun a little bit when it came to deploying containers into your cloud account. It should be your first priority to get your team to learn containerization, but deploying to the cloud requires allocating container registry infrastructure. That brings us to our next topic which is Infrastructure as Code, and it’s a very close second in priority.