Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access…

    Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation framework that leverages HTTP/2 communications to evade inspection. HTTP/2 is a relatively new protocol

CONDITIONALS
y file to n
VARIABLES
include global variables for all Roles
sample playbook
splunk/ setup_splunk_playbook.yaml roles/base /tasks/main.yaml /tasks/install.yaml search_head /tasks/configure.yaml…

"Kubernetes, not the hardest way": a worked example to implement Kesley Hightower's tutorial with Terraform and Ansible, on AWS.

How to provision Kubernetes on AWS from scratch, with Terraform and Ansible. Walk through a sample, tutorial project to install K8s on the "bare-cloud".

How to provision Kubernetes on AWS from scratch, with Terraform and Ansible. Walk through a sample, tutorial project to install K8s on the "bare-cloud".

Learning assembly is very important if you want to get a grasp of how a computer truly works under the hood. VisUAL is a very capable ARM emulator for those interested in learning the ARM assembly.…

Author’s Note: Thanks, as ever, to Fred Hebert, for reading a draft of this post and making some sterling suggestions. This is the first…

It was brought to my attention recently that there is a dearth of introductory educational material available about modern network load…

The log is a totally-ordered, append-only data structure. It’s a powerful yet simple abstraction—a sequence of immutable events. It’s something that programmers have been using for a ve…

In part one of this series we introduced the idea of a message log, touched on why it’s useful, and discussed the storage mechanics behind it. In part two, we discuss data replication. We hav…

As editor of Database Weekly, a weekly newsletter on what’s new in the world of databases and data storage generally, I enjoy poking…

The log is a totally-ordered, append-only data structure. It’s a powerful yet simple abstraction—a sequence of immutable events. It’s something that programmers have been using for a ve…

In part one of this series we introduced the idea of a message log, touched on why it’s useful, and discussed the storage mechanics behind it. In part two, we discuss data replication. We hav…

We dockerize our in house micro services, as well as 3rd party tools we use. That includes Apache Solr, Zookeeper, Redis and many more. T...

The first part in a multi-part series from Joe Beda, CTO of Heptio, examines multiple angles of how to think about and apply “cloud native” thinking.

It isn’t always clear how to apply the ideas laid out in our first post. Here are multiple angles to consider when it comes to cloud native thinking.