Set up accounts

This is an advanced topic for platform engineers.

In order to fully deploy the thoughtbot platform, it's recommended to set up the conventional accounts:

  • Operations: CI/CD pipelines and centralized monitoring

  • Network: centralized DNS and networking

  • Sandbox: staging and development workloads

  • Production: production workloads

  • Identity: permission sets and identity provider

  • Backup: backup policies and isolated vaults

You can provision the standard accounts using the landing zone repository template.

It may take some time for all the required accounts to be provisioned. Once all the accounts are fully enrolled, you are ready to create VPC networks.

Diagram of recommended accounts with resources that belong in each account