operational-hygiene

What problem does it solve?

This Skill addresses the inevitable degradation of cloud infrastructure through entropy, preventing costly resource sprawl, ensuring cost accountability, and maintaining system health via enforced discipline.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Resource Cleanup: Automates the identification and deletion of orphaned or unused cloud resources.
• Cost Attribution: Enforces mandatory tagging for cost allocation and control.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Sets up sensible default monitoring and alerting for critical metrics.
• Drift Detection: Implements scheduled checks to identify and alert on infrastructure changes made outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Lifecycle Management: Configures automated policies for storage, logs, and artifacts to manage retention and costs.
• Use Case: When deploying a new service, this Skill ensures all resources are tagged correctly for cost allocation, monitoring is automatically enabled with appropriate thresholds, and a process is in place to detect and remediate any manual changes made to the infrastructure.

Quick Start

Use the operational-hygiene skill to set up automated drift detection for your Terraform deployments.