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Inspired by « The Frugal Architect » from Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, this manifesto explain simple laws to create sustainable, scalable and human-friendly delivery processes on Gitlab. Law 1 - Use labels to categorise Merge Requests During the lifetime of a project, maintainers may handle dozens of merge requests, depending on the
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Modern IT systems are built on top of dozens of software applications and programming languages. These systems often depend on third-party components, which help developers avoid reinventing the wheel. These components, mostly libraries or frameworks, have their own lifecycles, allowing for the addition of new features and the patching of
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Over the years, I've built hundreds of Docker images for dozens of major companies in Europe & USA. Every time, the same question needs to be answered: "how can we test this image before using it?". Most of these companies answered this question by adding an
Hashicorp Vault
In a recent post, we've seen how your user naming convention can be applied to some of the dynamic secrets Vault can handle. In this article, we will see how companies can also set their password policy convention. Password policies not related to policies, which are used to
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Grafana is the most popular monitoring open source tool. Trusted by hundreds of companies across the world, Grafana is available as a managed service on AWS since August 2021. In this article, we will configure in a minute a Grafana workspace and his applications. 🔐Amazon Managed Grafana requires IAM Identity
Hashicorp Vault
Our world is using more and more digital services every day. A vast majority of modern systems are relying on databases to store various kind of sensitive information, from health metrics to financial reports for example. One of the biggest challenge nowadays lies to the security of this data, and
Hashicorp Vault
In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to rotate an Hashicorp Vault root token within 2 minutes. Step 1 - Login to Vault As this operation request specific rights, let's connect to Vault using the CLI: ➜ ~ vault login Token (will be hidden): Success! You are now authenticated.
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In previous course (Hashicorp Consul 102), we secure the communication between the 5 Consul servers of our cluster. In this course, we will learn how to use TLS to verify the authenticity of servers and clients. To better understand how this works in practice, let’s consider a hypothetical scenario
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Containers based architectures are growing years after years, modernizing software delivery pipelines and and empowering his adopters to scale fast. Far away from this promise, the reality is different: many companies are still struggling to create a proper build workflow for their Docker images, and the rise of vulnerabilities impacting
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In previous course (Hashicorp Consul 101), we created a cluster of 5 Consul servers. In this course, we will learn how to secure the communication between all the nodes (Server and clients) of this cluster, also known as gossip. To better understand how this works in practice, let’s consider
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In this course, we'll cover the fundamentals of Hashicorp Consul, starting with how to set up a cluster. To better understand how this works in practice, let’s consider a hypothetical scenario with a company named Acme. We will use a docker-compose stack to quickly set up resources
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Many companies are providing online services to their customers. This websites, applications and systems are critical assets acting like online storefront, available 24/7. Digital sales, a new challenge Like as a merchant carefully put his products in his physical storefront, similar attention to detail, high availability, and a seamless
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Terraform is a powerful tool designed to track the state of resources. It integrate a myriad of plugins and providers, allowing users to interact with a vast ecosystem of services and APIs. Most of these providers are open-source, inviting contributions from anyone to introduce new services, add features, or resolve
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AWS backup is a managed service acting as a hub to manage everything about the backups of your business critical assets. This service offer a wide range of features, such as: * Automated backup schedules and retention management * Centralized backup monitoring * Incremental backups * Cross-account management with AWS Organizations * Automated backup audits
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AWS Database Migration Service, commonly abbreviated as "AWS DMS", is a service developed to streamline the transition of customers databases from on-premise systems to the AWS Cloud. Since its launch in general availability in 2016, this service has undergone numerous updates, with the most significant recent enhancement being
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Each year, AWS Re:Invent revolutionizes the tech landscape by introducing a myriad of new features and services. This year's announcements, marked by groundbreaking innovations, are summarized here. 🤝Special thanks to Pierre-Yves Gillier - Solutions Architect at AWS - for his contribution to this article. Amazon Redshift Serverless