In the first post (https://www.greenreedtech.com/aws-compliance-as-code-with-chef-inspec-using-aws-lambda/) we looked at getting Chef InSpec to run in an AWS Lambda function and in
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Earlier this month I had the privilege of being a delegate for Cloud Field Day 3 (http://techfieldday.com/event/cfd3/) which is a
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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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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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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 (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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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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A very popular Terraform state management configuration is to utilize AWS S3 for state management and AWS DynamoDB for state
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What is immutable infrastructure? Immutable infrastructure is the concept of utilizing an infrastructure component in an ephemeral manner. This means
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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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Properly managing secrets (passwords, access keys, etc.) is a critical aspect of any development pipeline given the consequences if those
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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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