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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by hamandcheese on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:16AM (#42487240)
I feel like IAM may be the sleeper killer-app of cloud.

I self-host a lot of things, but boy oh boy if I were running a company it would be a helluvalotta work to get IAM properly set up.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by sanderjd on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:28AM (#42487333)
I strongly agree with this and also strongly lament it.

I find IAM to be a terrible implementation of a foundationally necessary system. It feels tacked on to me, except now it's tacked onto thousands of other things and there's no way out.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by andrewfromx on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:44AM (#42487451)
like terraform! isn't pulumi 100% better but there's no way out of terraform.
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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by pphysch on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:50AM (#42487494)
That's essentially why "platform engineering" is a hot topic. There are great FOSS tools for this, largely in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

To be clear, authentication could still be outsourced, but authorizing access to (on-prem) resources in a multi-tenant environment is something that "platforms" are frequently designed for.

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