ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access

ConsoleMe evokes the word “consolation” first thing i thought when I read the title. Interestingly the article mentions the naming is purposeful and the CLI tool is called “weep”. Hahah clever :)

Am I right that policies and roles managed through consoleme should not be managed by terraform?

They're using Tornado!

Anyone from Netflix would like to chime in on why it was chosen?

I considered writing it in Go, but my team is Python-centric. Tornado was chosen back in 2018 because it was one of the better fully featured async web frameworks. The original ConsoleMe was server-side rendered, and Tornado offered support for these types of templates.

ConsoleMe's frontend is now fully React and could be ported away from Tornado, but it'd be a pretty large effort.

anyone already using this outside of Netflix?