AWS Compliance as Code with Chef InSpec using AWS Lambda
InSpec 2.0 added builtin support for scanning public cloud resources in AWS and Azure (https://blog.chef.io/2018/02/20/announcing-inspec-2-0/). With the addition of these
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VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Vault Integration
The goal of this post is to walk through configuring vRO to leverage HashiCorp Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io/) for reading secrets that
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Packer vSphere ISO Builder Release v1.6
There have been a lot of changes from v1.5 to v1.6 with the biggest one being support for provisioners as
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Vault Audit Logging
Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io/) is a secrets management tool created by HashiCorp that is extremely popular. Given the sensitive nature of the
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Google Cloud Platform Compliance as Code with InSpec
Validating that resources are aligned with defined organizational standards is critical to operating environments at scale. In this post we’ll
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Terraform AWS S3 State Management Least Privilege
A very popular Terraform state management configuration is to utilize AWS S3 for state management and AWS DynamoDB for state
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vSphere Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
What is immutable infrastructure? Immutable infrastructure is the concept of utilizing an infrastructure component in an ephemeral manner. This means
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Building vSphere Templates From Scratch Using Packer and the vSphere API
Packer (https://www.packer.io/) is amazing tool that enables templates and machine images to be created in an automated fashion with support
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Mitigating Terraform Secrets Exposure
Properly managing secrets (passwords, access keys, etc.) is a critical aspect of any development pipeline given the consequences if those
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Terraform ChatOps with StackStorm
In this post we’ll walk through configuring StackStorm to integrate with Terraform and leverage Slack to trigger Terraform actions in
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Building A Dynamic vSphere/AWS Hybrid Cloud Lab – Part 2
This post covers the second part of the blog series on creating a dynamic hybrid cloud lab environment with a
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Building A Dynamic vSphere/AWS Hybrid Cloud Lab – Part 1
In this blog series we’ll walk through creating a dynamic lab hybrid cloud environment with a local (on-prem) vSphere environment
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