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Design the org-wide governance posture: RBAC, SSO, audit logging, multi-account architecture, showback dimensions, budget governance, dashboards as governance, Cost Flow Sankey analysis.

Tier
Architect
Modules
8
Lessons
38
Time
~6 hours
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8 modules. 38 lessons.

M3.1

RBAC

Design and operate ZopNight's RBAC: 15 policy entities, 3 system roles, custom roles, team-scoped access.

6lessons ·~54 min
L1 The policy table L2 System roles: Viewer, Editor, Admin, SuperAdmin L3 Custom roles L4 Team-scoped access L5 The three-state scope model L6 Frontend gating with usePermission() Open module overview →
M3.2

SSO: SAML, Google OAuth, GitHub OAuth

Pick the right SSO method and configure it for the org.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 Pick your SSO L2 SAML per-email-domain L3 Google + GitHub OAuth L4 Diagnosing SSO failures Open module overview →
M3.3

Audit logging

Use audit logs for compliance evidence, debugging, and forensic investigation.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 What's logged L2 Request and response body capture L3 Filtering, sorting, exporting L4 Audit as compliance evidence Open module overview →
M3.4

Multi-account architecture

Design multi-account structures for blast radius isolation, billing, compliance.

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 Why multi-account L2 AWS Organizations, GCP Folders, Azure Management Groups L3 Cross-account discovery in ZopNight L4 Cost rollup vs cost isolation L5 Multi-account anti-patterns Open module overview →
M3.5

Showback design

Design showback dimensions, attribute costs across teams and tags, handle shared resources, and surface unit economics.

6lessons ·~54 min
L1 Organisation, Teams, Tags: pick the dimension L2 Team attribution and shared resources L3 Tag attribution L4 Tag coverage widget L5 Unit economics: cost per X L6 Push, pull, CSV ingest Open module overview →
M3.6

Budget governance

Design layered budgets, configure threshold alerts, and operate budget governance as a discipline.

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 Budget vs forecast vs alert L2 Per-resource, per-group, per-team budgets L3 Threshold-crossing notifications L4 Green/yellow/red signals L5 Live computation, not stored Open module overview →
M3.7

Dashboards as governance

Configure dashboards as the org-level governance surface; use presets + customization.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 Four presets: Executive, Engineering, FinOps, All Widgets L2 Cloning + customization L3 Per-widget RBAC L4 Default dashboard governance Open module overview →
M3.8

Cost Flow Sankey

Use the Sankey diagram to diagnose where the money goes and surface reclaimable spend.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 When to switch from Trend to Flow L2 Five layout dimensions L3 Drill, breadcrumb, back-out L4 Savings overlay: "$X reclaimable" Open module overview →

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