DockerCon 2015 Wrap-Up
I attended DockerCon 2015 in San Francisco from June 22-23. The official wrap-ups for Day 1 and Day 2 are available from Docker, Inc. Keynote videos are posted here. Slides from every presentation are...
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Once you’ve started using Ansible to codify the configuration of your infrastructure, you will undoubtedly run into a situation where you need to manage some of your infrastructure’s “secrets”....
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Once you’ve codified all of your secrets into Ansible var files and encrypted them with Vault, you’ll probably want to test the deployment of these secrets with Test Kitchen. Unfortunately you will...
View ArticleAutomating Linux Security Best Practices with Ansible
Suppose you're setting up a new Linux server in Amazon AWS, Digital Ocean, or even within your private network. What are some of the low-hanging fruits one can knock-out to improve the security of a...
View ArticleEncrypting Login Credentials in Ansible Vault
One of Ansible‘s benefits over Puppet and Chef is its server-less/agent-less architecture. Rather than having agents on client machines continuously checking in to a server for configuration changes...
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