devopscloudcompliance

Twelve-Factor compliance checker

Create an automated tool that scans cloud applications for Twelve-Factor compliance. DevOps teams need continuous validation of their architecture decisions.

Why now

Cloud-native development is mainstream but best practices aren't automatically followed.

Who for
DevOps engineers
Business model
Team licenses
Effort
A few weeks

Teams often violate Twelve-Factor principles without realizing it until deployment issues arise.

Build a CLI tool and CI plugin that analyzes codebases and infrastructure as code.

Sell to engineering managers who need to standardize across teams.

The first version could just check for environment variables and stateless processes.

The risk is that some principles become outdated with new cloud paradigms.

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