Building a Unified Cloud Inventory for Reliability: Lessons from Using CloudQuery
Nathan Handler, Infrastructure Security Engineer at Reddit, presents how they built a unified cloud inventory using CloudQuery to improve reliability engineering across the organization.
Modern SRE teams operate in increasingly complex environments that span multiple clouds, services, and identity systems. Maintaining reliability depends on understanding what exists across this estate, how it is configured, and how it changes over time. Yet this data is often fragmented across APIs, consoles, and configuration stores that don't speak the same language.
Reddit addressed this challenge by adopting CloudQuery - a framework that lets teams extract and normalize cloud, SaaS, and infrastructure data into relational tables. By consolidating this data, they built a continuously updated inventory that provides a shared view of their cloud environment.
What You'll Learn
- Why Reddit chose CloudQuery and how they integrated it into their infrastructure
- Building custom plugins to extend coverage and extract the data they care about most
- How this system supports reliability workflows: incident response, on-call investigations, and capacity reviews
- How shared visibility strengthened collaboration between SRE, Product, and GRC teams
Session Details
- Time: 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM PT
- Date: Sunday, March 8, 2026
- Location: Pasadena Convention Center, Ballroom G
- Conference: SCALE 23x (March 5-8, 2026)
About the Speaker
Nathan Handler is an Infrastructure Security Engineer at Reddit with expertise in building internal asset inventories, extending tooling to fit specific environments, and using data to inform technical and organizational decisions.
About SCALE
SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America, returning to Pasadena March 5-8, 2026.
What you will learn
Building Custom Plugins
Learn how Reddit extended CloudQuery with custom plugins to extract data from internal systems and APIs specific to their environment.
Reliability Workflows
See how a unified cloud inventory supports drift detection, incident response, on-call investigations, and capacity reviews.
Cross-Team Visibility
Discover how shared visibility across SRE, Product, and GRC teams enables faster decisions and stronger operational alignment.
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