VMware vSphere VM iPXE Boot without DHCP
Network booting operating systems isn’t a new concept and has been around for years. Bare metal deployments are typically where
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DevOps
HashiCorp Vault vSphere Authentication with VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)
HashiCorp Vault supports a number of authentication methods including methods that utilize what HashiCorp refers to as a “trusted platform”.
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Deployment Pipeline Chaos Engineering with StackStorm and ChaosToolkit
Chaos Engineering is the practice of experimenting or injecting faults into a system to test how the system responds to
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Identifying Active HashiCorp Vault Root Tokens
Revoking the root token on a production HashiCorp Vault deployment is one of the recommended best practices for securing an
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Detecting HashiCorp Vault Root Login
Security of a HashiCorp Vault deployment is of paramount importance given the sensitive nature of the information contained within the
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Puppet Bolt Vault Inventory Plugin
In this blog post we’ll look at the HashiCorp Vault plugin for Puppet Bolt that enables authentication credentials for Bolt
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HashiCorp Packer Puppet Bolt Provisioner
Treating workloads as “cattle” or immutable is a popular management paradigm for stateless workloads and is especially prevalent for such
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Terraform Puppet Provisioner
HashiCorp Terraform 0.12.2 added official support for a Puppet provisioner. One caveat is that the provisioner is only available in
Read moreVault Hardening Compliance using Chef InSpec
HashiCorp Vault is quickly becoming the defacto secrets management platform used in environments that rely on DevOps concepts for application
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Morpheus Data: A Next-Gen Cloud Management Platform
Morpheus Data was one of the companies that presented at Cloud Field Day 3 (http://techfieldday.com/event/cfd3/) in early April. I was
Read moreAWS Compliance as Code with Chef InSpec using AWS Lambda Part #2
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
Read moreAWS 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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