Staying on top of ephemeral environments is a challenge many organizations face. This blog post describes the process we undertook at Thought Machine, a cloud-native company with environments spanning across multiple cloud providers, to identify a solution able to detect, identify, categorize, and visualize all the cloud assets being deployed in an organization.
Starting from what the challenges posed by ephemeral environments are, and continuing with what Cartography is, why it is useful, the high-level design of its deployment, and concluding on how to consume the data it collects. We are also going to open source a set of custom queries and tooling we created to simplify data consumption.
Let’s start by defining what problem we are going to tackle and how Cartography can help with it.
