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The test of real Terraform discipline - destroy, apply, identical environment. Plus remote state, modules, EKS from one block, import and drift, and CI policy checks that reviewed my own infrastructure.
I opened a shell inside one of my pods and asked AWS who it was. It answered with an IAM role and a set of temporary credentials. No access keys anywhere. Not in an environment variable, not in a Kube
I wrote a value to Redis, deleted its pod, and the value was gone. Then I did the exact same thing to a different Redis, deleted the pod, and the value was still there. Same database, same command, op
There is a moment in this build I keep coming back to. I am looking at a shell prompt on a server that has no SSH key, no port 22 open, and no inbound firewall rules at all. From that shell I am query
I watched an entire Jenkins video series and understood almost none of it. The moment Groovy code appeared on screen, I zoned out. I was convinced I needed to learn a programming language to do this j
A naive-to-production Docker journey: multi-stage builds, scanning, signing, non-root, and the bugs that taught me the most.
Standing up Sonatype Nexus on AWS and publishing Java, Node, Python, and Docker artifacts through one private registry. The concepts, the version-chase, the security.
Building a hardened, HTTPS-secured web server on AWS from scratch, then recovering it from a total lockout using the EBS disk-swap technique.
description: "Building a JAR and a Node package from scratch, then adding the four things that make an artifact shippable: an ingredients list, a vulnerability scan, a checksum, and a signature." In D
