"At GoDaddy, our cloud journey has always prioritized governance, compliance, and a great developer experience. As our AWS footprint expanded across hundreds of teams and thousands of deployments, we faced a classic engineering dilemma: how do we uphold rigorous governance standards without compromising developer velocity? AWS CDK's default bootstrapping process-while essential-often clashed with our governance model, creating friction, workarounds, and wasted cycles. This post details how we evolved beyond that friction, eliminating the explicit bootstrap step entirely and replacing it with a seamless, zero-touch experience."
"GoDaddy's governance model isn't just a checkbox for compliance; it's the foundation of our cloud security posture. Our approach requires all AWS resource modifications to flow through AWS CloudFormation, with each deployment evaluated against our rule sets covering: Security configurations: Encryption requirements, network controls, access management Compliance standards: Data protection, regulatory requirements, audit capabilities Operational practices: Resource tagging, backup strategies, monitoring configurations Cost optimization: Resource sizing, lifecycle management, utilization thresholds"
GoDaddy removed the explicit AWS CDK bootstrap step and introduced a bootstrapless, zero-touch deployment flow that enforces governance automatically. The governance model mandates that all AWS resource modifications flow through AWS CloudFormation and be evaluated by CloudFormation hooks. Rule sets assess security configurations, compliance standards, operational practices, and cost optimization to prevent non-compliant resources pre-deployment. Eliminating the bootstrap step reduced friction, workarounds, and wasted cycles while preserving developer velocity across hundreds of teams and thousands of deployments. The resulting flow enables developers to deploy with a single command while maintaining centralized controls and auditability.
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