awesome-kubernetes/v2-docs/cloud-asset-inventory.md

Cloud Asset Inventory

!!! info "Architectural Context" Detailed reference for Cloud Asset Inventory in the context of Architectural Foundations.

Standard Reference

• CloudCanvas - Diagramming for Cloud Infrastructure [COMMUNITY-TOOL]

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS

Asset Management

• Querying AWS at scale across APIs, Regions, and accounts [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An AWS blog post analyzing strategies and open-source tools (like Steampipe) to query and audit AWS resources at massive multi-region, multi-account scales. It breaks down API rate-limiting workarounds and security posture assessment methodologies.

Azure

Enterprise Architecture

• Transitioning an Existing Azure Environment to the Azure Landing Zone Reference Architecture [ADVANCED LEVEL] [LEGACY] — Official Microsoft guidance outlining the migration roadmap of legacy brownfield Azure environments to the Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) conceptual architecture. It focuses on governance, subscription organization, network topology convergence, and security policy enforcement at scale.

Platform Engineering

• Subscription Vending Implementation Guidance [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explains the architectural pattern of automated subscription vending on Azure.

• Guides cloud platform teams to construct GitOps-driven workflows.
• Automatically provisions fully governed, secure, and networked Azure subscriptions using Bicep or Terraform.

Storage

Distributed Filesystems

• Ceph: A Distributed Object, Block, and File Storage Platform ⭐ 16621 [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DE FACTO STANDARD] — The industry-standard unified, distributed storage system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Provides object, block, and file storage within a single cluster.
• Acts as a foundational storage engine for large-scale Kubernetes PV platforms (Rook-Ceph) and private clouds.

Training

AWS Official

• AWS Cloud Practitioner - Curso Completo 2023 [SPANISH CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A complete video guide systematically mapping the official AWS Cloud Practitioner certification domains in Spanish. [SPANISH CONTENT]

Cloud Security

Asset Management (1)

Infrastructure-as-Code

• steampipe 🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — A zero-dependency CLI tool that allows querying of APIs and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GitHub, etc.) dynamically using Postgres-compatible SQL. It simplifies cloud infrastructure compliance, security audits, and resource inspection by exposing multi-platform APIs as regular database tables.
• cloudquery.io: Cloud Query: The open-source cloud asset inventory powered' by SQL [DE FACTO STANDARD] — An open-source cloud asset inventory tool that transforms infrastructure metadata into queryable SQL databases. By decoupling extraction (APIs) from storage (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse), it enables security and platform teams to perform advanced compliance auditing, cost optimization, and drift detection.

Observability

• (2023) cloudquery.io: Building an Open-Source Cloud Asset Inventory with CloudQuery and Grafana [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A hands-on deployment guide detailing how to build a unified cloud-native asset inventory. It guides architects through configuring CloudQuery pipelines to extract multi-cloud metadata and visualize security posture and infrastructure footprint dynamically via Grafana dashboards.

Software Architecture

Cloud Patterns

Serverless

• ServerlessHorrors: A Web Compiling Nightmares in the Serverless World [SPANISH CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Un compendio técnico sobre los errores más comunes y costosos en el diseño de arquitecturas serverless. Ofrece un análisis crítico de fallos reales de concurrencia, inicios en frío ("cold starts"), costos fuera de control e integración de servicios, sirviendo como guía de advertencia para diseñadores de sistemas distribuidos. [SPANISH CONTENT]

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