Container | Docker | Visual Studio | DevOps | Image — Hopefully, if you are working with Go and want to utilize it in a container that this article finds you. I tried looking online for this but had to dig a little bit. So in this article, we are going to add to an existing .devcontainer Go. The reason I…

Amazon Web Service | DevSecOps | Configuration Management | Package Management | DevOps — Amazon Systems Manager (SSM) is not set up by default for EC2 (Virtual Machine) instances. However, I was recently tasked to install this on all the virtual machines in order to run particular tasks within AWS at an Organizational level. When doing this best practice approaches need to be met…

Oracle | Database Connection | Images | docker CLI — Have you ever had a container that required a connection to an oracle database but failed and spent hours trying to figure out why? Well so did I. That is why I am writing this article. To hopefully help someone gain hours back. So let's get started. Prerequisite: The assumption…

Secure | Lab | Linux | VPNClient | Connection | — Ever wanted to quickly set up a Homelab with a firewall but still want the leverage of working as if you are still within the same network? Well, I have read a couple of articles and for the most part, they are pretty good. The problem I found though is…

Immutable | Containerization | Images | Security | Shared Responsibility | K8s — Currently, I am working on a project where I need to teach people a new way of thinking when moving to a cloud-native mindset. As part of that, I want to share some best practices for modernizing applications. …

RHEL 8 | RPMs | LocalInstall | Offline | downloadonly | yum | dnf | — I recently had to install an Oracle server however there is a catch; NO INTERNET. It gets even better the Operating System (OS) is Red Hat 8 (RHEL 8) and no system-manager subscription. So where do you start? Well there is a process to the magic. Lets get started! Step 1. Utilize downloadonly flag with install Both…

Best Practices | K8s | OpenShift | Image Hardening — Minimizing Server Image Surface Area There are multiple benefits of trimming the fat from images before deploying them into the Platform as a Service. This section of the documentation will cover these benefits: What are bloated images? A bloated image is an image that contains increased amounts of unnecessary items which are not needed to run the application. Examples…

Modulization | IaC | Immutable | DevSecOps | Hashicorp | PEM — So I ran into a Clean Code issue called Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) when it came to secrets being associated to EC2 on AWS. So when I took two steps forward I took one back to make sure things are done with good quality. So what i did was create…

I recently ran into an issue with pushing up some Terraform changes and seeing the following error: You can't perform this operation on the secret because it was marked for deletion I was completely confused as if I read the error correctly I would have seen it was dealing with…