International Business Machines Corporation

Amardeep S Kalsi

Konrad Ohms

Thomas Spatzier

Nicholas S Banyard

Diane Kim

Concepts for synchronising and maintaining audited code and toolchain access in a modern software development pipeline are presented. In particular, by leveraging software bots (also known as software development bots) to monitor changes in a development team's preferred access control mechanism, such changes in the preferred state can be stored as preferred/target configuration in a source controlled repository. Further, the same (or other) software bots may be used to monitor for configuration drift between the source-controlled system and the preferred/target configuration stored in the repository and eliminate drifts automatically if possible or alert interested parties about those drifts.

Synchronizing access controls for audited code development

Provided are techniques for securely processing secret values in application configurations. A configuration file for an application is retrieved from a first repository, where the configuration file stores a configuration value and a link to a secret value in a second repository. The secret value is retrieved from the second repository using the link. The configuration value is hashed to output a hashed configuration value and the secret value is hashed to output a hashed secret value. The hashed configuration value is signed, with a private key, to output a hashed and signed configuration value, and the hashed secret value is signed, with the private key, to output a hashed and signed secret value. The configuration value, the secret value, the hashed and signed configuration value, and the hashed and signed secret value are stored in a release file. The application is executed using the release file.

Securely processing secret values in application configurations

Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for automatic interdependency resolution for micro-service deployments. A micro-service deployment broker executing on a computing device obtains current environment and feature support of a deployed distributed computing environment. The micro-service deployment broker determines environment and feature requirements for a requested deployment, and compares that with the current environment and feature support of the deployed distributed computing environment. Based on the comparison, a deployment command is issued indicating the deployment plan for the requested deployment. In cases where deployment is not possible or only a partial deployment is possible, an indication is sent to an operator to indicate that full deployment did not occur.

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Amardeep S Kalsi