Life & fun · September 6, 2023
Abbey – Automate access management to infrastructure with Terraform
Hi HN. We’ve been building Abbey and happy to share our beta with you: https://abbey.io. Abbey makes it easy for engineers to configure how their infrastructure is accessed by other employees in the company. This is especially useful when your company outgrows giving admin access to everyone all the time, typically driven by compliance requirements. With Abbey, you use your existing Terraform setup to configure workflows and policies for how people are granted/revoked access to your services. Your end users then use a web app to request access to resources they need and you…
Abbey – Automate access management to infrastructure with Terraform launched on September 6, 2023 with 30 votes, #1,339 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Abbey is an infrastructure access management tool that integrates with Terraform to help companies control who can access their services. Engineers use it to define access workflows and policies within their existing Terraform setup, while employees request access through a web app. Approvers can grant or deny requests with full audit trails. The tool is designed for companies growing beyond giving everyone admin access, particularly those facing compliance requirements.
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From the sources
When it comes to employee access to cloud infrastructure, Workflows allow for definition of how someone should get access (who should approve), and Policies define whether someone should have access (or when access should be revoked). Abbey is built for the Infrastructure engineer, allowing them to define both Workflows and Policies via the Abbey Terraform Provider. Any team can deploy Abbey quickly utilizing your existing Git repository, CI/CD pipeline, and Terraform orchestration system. Infrastructure engineers can define how access should be granted and when access should be revoked, reducing their manual workload. End users get frictionless access. Security teams can rest easy knowing…from docs.abbey.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN. We’ve been building Abbey and happy to share our beta with you: https://abbey.io. Abbey makes it easy for engineers to configure how their infrastructure is accessed by other employees in the company. This is especially useful when your company outgrows giving admin access to everyone all the time…
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