DevOps
What Really is DevOps?
When I started my career as a Systems Administrator, I thought that I would be doing that for my whole career. A few years later, I thought to myself, ”If I were to progress, what would be my next step?” After a little bit of research, I learned of a position called a DevOps Engineer.…
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Pritunl Zero
Pritunl is an open source OpenVPN and IPSec solution that comes with a somewhat popular VPN client. Pritunl Zero fills in a few more gaps by providing zero trust access to SSH and Web Services similar to products such as Akamai EAA and Zscaller. I installed an individual server using this guide. It was relatively…
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Maturity in DevOps
As a consultant, I tend to work with a variety of clients and teams all across the product maturity spectrum. Some are just starting; maybe they have an MVP, maybe they are still building it. Others have existed in their space for years. Typically, when I get called into projects, the product maturity is on…
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Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment in the World of DevOps Methodology
As we all know in this era of technology, manual tasks are gradually becoming obsolete. Everyone in the industry expects that processes, phases of development and deployments are expedited. The achievement of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) plays an astounding role in automating every phase of the software development lifecycle. The basic phases…
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There’s been a ton of coverage of the recently discovered Capital One breach. I’m generally very skeptical when AWS security makes the news; so far, most “breaches” have been a result of the customer implementing AWS services in an insecure manner, usually by allowing unrestricted internet access and often overriding defaults to remove safeguards (I’m looking at you, NICE and Accenture and Dow Jones!). Occasionally, a discovered “AWS vulnerability” impacts a large number of applications in AWS – and it also impacts any similarly-configured applications that are *not* in AWS (see, for example, this PR piece…um,…
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