Editing Guardrails

Edit guardrails that govern how cloud resources are created and changed

Resourcely allows you to edit the available guardrails seen in the Guardrail catalog. From the Guardrail section, select the guardrail you would like to edit, in the popup press the Manage button and select Edit

You can also Deactivate, Clone, and Delete a guardrail from the same menu

In the next screen, you can configure your guardrail functionality. This determines what changes Resourcely will watch and potentially block.

In this example, we edit the S3 naming convention guardrail which requires a specific prefix in the name of an S3 bucket. We can configure the prefix from the default resourcely- to anything we wish. We can also select the Group responsible for approving guardrail overrides.

After your guardrail has been configured, press Developer Experience to test the guardrail.

Now we can test the guardrail by synthesizing a resource to check against the condition of the guardrail.

Next we can validate the guardrail checks successfully the requirements. Notice the PASSING green condition.

Now we must provide the metadata for a guardrail in order to effectively describe the change. Guardrail metadata includes:

Name
Description
Provider
Category

After the metadata has been filled, press the Update Guardrail button to proceed.

In this section, we can verify the changes and then press the Yes, Update Guardrail button to publish your guardrail changes and make it immediately available to your end users.

Be careful! Editing an Active guardrail takes effect immediately across all repositories that Resourcely monitors.

See Releasing guardrails for ways to control the scope of guardrails.

Last updated 3 months ago