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Terragrunt an Initial Take

I have always been a massive fan of Terraform. It helps to smooth everything and help things keep moving well. However, I used to be a little bit against Terragrunt. I felt like it took something and abstracted it away. However, I have recently had the opportunity to...

Deploying Uptime Kuma to Fly

Uptime Kuma is one of my favorite status systems. It is simple to setup, looks nice, works well, and integrates with almost everything. One of the best parts to me about it is the fact that I can quickly deploy it on Fly.IO since it is just a simple docker container....

DevOps Holiday Prep

Every year as it comes towards the end of the year there is always a major amount of prep for the Holidays. Getting ready for Black Friday and planning for more people to be out of the office than usual. These are some of the items that I feel are missed or always...

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Terragrunt an Initial Take

Terragrunt an Initial Take

I have always been a massive fan of Terraform. It helps to smooth everything and help things keep moving well. However, I used to be a little bit against Terragrunt. I felt like it took something and abstracted it away. However, I have recently had the opportunity to...

Terragrunt an Initial Take

I have always been a massive fan of Terraform. It helps to smooth everything and help things keep moving well. However, I used to be a little bit against Terragrunt. I felt like it took something and abstracted it away. However, I have recently had the opportunity to...

Deploying Uptime Kuma to Fly

Uptime Kuma is one of my favorite status systems. It is simple to setup, looks nice, works well, and integrates with almost everything. One of the best parts to me about it is the fact that I can quickly deploy it on Fly.IO since it is just a simple docker container....

DevOps Holiday Prep

Every year as it comes towards the end of the year there is always a major amount of prep for the Holidays. Getting ready for Black Friday and planning for more people to be out of the office than usual. These are some of the items that I feel are missed or always...

Why I finally switched to Grafana Cloud

For a while now I have been self-hosting Grafana. I recently decided to give Cloud a try again. Overall I have ended up moving all of my metrics over to it. After factoring in all of the storage costs and everything it really came out better and I have been able to...

Article 45

One of the latest things coming from the EU is Article 45. Overall this is a terrible thing that could allow for encryption to become almost useless. It would allow for Certificate Authorities to work with the government to examine traffic that should be encrypted....

Prowler: Security Scanning

Another Security Scanning tool that I enjoy using is called Prowler (Github Link here). They have a CLI utility that is awesome at running quick scans and they also have a cloud paid version that helps with more constant scanning and gives some nice dashboards. For...

11/10/23 — This Week in DevOps

DevOps is an ever changing field. Let's dig into some of the things that are going on this week. Article 45 This basically forbids browsers from forcing basic security measures. This is something that is super un-ideal and I have a full write up planned for next week....

October 30 AI Executive Order

So with regards to AI it is becoming a part of our lives very quickly. Github Co-Pilot is super helpful in seeing quick things in code. ChatGPT and Bard are super awesome at helping to build a Markdown table (because I know I hate building markdown tables by hand)....

11/3/2023 — This Week in DevOps

This week we have some security concerns as well as some general cool new things in DevOps to talk about. Security Flaw in NGINX Ingress Controller There are some general new CVEs that have some pretty high scores on them. This is just some no path sanitization,...

Converting VulnHub OVAs to AMIs

This is discussing getting VulnHub ISOs and converting them into AMIs to be used within AWS. This is something that I have found helpful and to me at least helps to provide a very simple way to spin up machines to work on compromising. Create an AWS bucket. Nothing...

Terragrunt an Initial Take

I have always been a massive fan of Terraform. It helps to smooth everything and help things keep moving well. However, I used to be a little bit against Terragrunt. I felt like it took something and abstracted it away. However, I have recently had the opportunity to...

Deploying Uptime Kuma to Fly

Uptime Kuma is one of my favorite status systems. It is simple to setup, looks nice, works well, and integrates with almost everything. One of the best parts to me about it is the fact that I can quickly deploy it on Fly.IO since it is just a simple docker container....

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Terragrunt an Initial Take

I have always been a massive fan of Terraform. It helps to smooth everything and help things keep moving well. However, I used to be a little bit against Terragrunt. I felt like it took something and abstracted it away. However, I have recently had the opportunity to...

Deploying Uptime Kuma to Fly

Uptime Kuma is one of my favorite status systems. It is simple to setup, looks nice, works well, and integrates with almost everything. One of the best parts to me about it is the fact that I can quickly deploy it on Fly.IO since it is just a simple docker container....

Prowler: Security Scanning

Another Security Scanning tool that I enjoy using is called Prowler (Github Link here). They have a CLI utility that is awesome at running quick scans and they also have a cloud paid version that helps with more constant scanning and gives some nice dashboards. For...

Why I Like GitHub Actions

So if you have ever done anything in DevOps you have worked with some kind of CI/CD. I have worked with multiple different ones over the years and have certainly generated some opinions around them and which ones I prefer. Ease of Use GitHub Actions has been one of...

NGROK: Still a cool tool

I'm sure plenty of people have used NGROK. It is a tool that I used a lot as a developer to quickly stand up and test webhooks if I needed to hit my local computer. It helped to just give me an external URL that I could use to get the data. However I recently had an...

Why RClone is Fantastic

A tool that I have been using a lot lately has been rclone. This is really just a tool to help move data between different cloud providers. Similar to rsync in the sense of transferring data. It has been super helpful whenever I need to send a large amount of data....

Differences with NGINX and HAProxy in Kubernetes

I have always been someone who uses NGINX whenever I am setting up a Kubernetes cluster. It has always just been the quick and easy standup an NGINX ingress so I can start routing traffic. However, I recently had the chance to work with HAProxy as an ingress as we...

ScoutSuite: Security Tool or DevOps Tool?

Pretty much anyone who has worked in security has heard of ScoutSuite at some point and has probably used it. Overall it is a simple-to-run cloud scanning utility that looks for any security misconfigurations. All this requires is some AWS Credentials and can be run...

Cloudflare DMARC Management

One of the products I have been using a lot lately is the Cloudflare DMARC Managment. It has been super helpful to just manage the collection and analysis. Basically, the way it works is that Cloudflare will generate an email inbox that all of your reports can go to...

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