SourceTree is Awesome! SourceTree is a completely free Git client that is supported by Windows as well as the Mac platform. It features an appealing visual interface between users and Git which can be seen in the below image. I have been using it for about a month now and I have fallen in love with […]
I had a great time talking at AgileDC yesterday afternoon on DevOps in a Regulated and Embedded Environment. Several people asked after the talk for a link to the slides, so I’m making them available on Slideshare. If this topic interests you, please check out my on-going series on the subject. Let me know what […]
Another security conference has come and gone and I surprisingly do not feel the doom and gloom of knowing that my data is being utterly owned. Two of the more interesting talks focused on protecting environments through Powershell and how to thoroughly test applications with more than just limited security automated tools. Defending with Powershell […]
In a typical CI/CD pipeline, code is build, code is deployed, code is tested. In our specific scenario the code is built through Jenkins and maven on a Jenkins build slave, then the build artifacts are uploaded to an artifact repository. Through an Infrastructure-as-code tool, like Chef, the code is deployed to a test environment […]
Here are some slides to an internal talk I gave on the whole embedded DevOps problem. I’ll have a lot more to say on this subject over the next couple of weeks, and at a talk I’ll be giving at AgileDC on October 24, 2016, but hopefully these slides will get you thinking. The key […]
Welcome to the first part of an ongoing series I’m calling DevOps in a Regulated and Embedded Environment. This first part looks at the particular challenges posed by a particular embedded environment. Future posts will dig into the details of how the more interesting problems were solved and what we should have done differently given […]
Setting up a load balancer in Azure is a simple process, the tricky part is all of the prerequisites and dependencies that need to be met in order for two or more virtual machines to be load balanced. The first and most important dependency is creating an Availability Set for your virtual machines to live […]
Whether you like it or not, Spring MVC is by far the the most popular and used web framework for Java. It is important to recognize this popularity and its reputation. It’s one of the most favored framework by federal agencies because the fact that it is Java-based means “enterprise-ready” and that carries a lot […]
Disclaimer: I have no intention of detailing how the box was exploited, with a map of how to break this system again. I intend to show the methods used to discover and trace the breach throughout the server. Welcome to part 3 of 3 of my Forensics Analysis blog. Following the first 2 parts of […]
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a handy tool for online file storage that is often used when setting up VMs. While transferring data between availability zones in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a trivial task, transferring S3 buckets from AWS to AWS GovCloud requires a greater challenge. In order to start, you’ll need a […]
