Workshop: Getting started with Cloud Custodian

Cloud Custodian is an OSS governance project that allows cloud and platform engineering teams to unify dozens of tools and scripts for managing their public cloud accounts into one tool. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the tool and get a hands-on guide through policy authorship and execution.During this workshop, you will:

• Get an overview of Cloud Custodian
• Learn how a policy works & review examples
• Install Cloud Custodian in your sandbox environment
• Write and execute your first set of policies
• Review outputs and findings of policies
• Enhance the policies to perform remediations

Prerequisites:

• Familiarity with general software development practices, Python, AWS
• Access to a non-production "sandbox" AWS account with read-write permissions