Information Technology
In the early days of my career, I had the epiphany that “Best Practices” really do not exist or apply to most scenarios. It should be all driven by logic and common sense in the end. What makes much more sense is to find the standard /common practice compares to the mythological unicorn of “best practices” and see if has value and benefit in a specific case. Continue reading “PowerShell: When and Where Writing Logs Matters”
Creating Service Accounts is an especially tedious process when we need to create a lot of those for different purposes, mainly driven by the least privilege access across environments, projects, deployments or simply different clients. So why don’t improve this? Let’s make it all more fun, efficient and less error-prone, so let’s automate it! Continue reading “How to Create New Service Accounts in Active Directory from a CSV with Powershell”
As a DevOps engineer, I frequently come across talented developers that underestimate some security aspects of the deployments, for instance, just to name a couple: integrity and authenticity of the code or artefacts that we deploy.
Python and Powershell are powerful languages to develop quick and robust solutions that are extremely popular among attackers, for this reason, our ecosystem should take security very seriously.
Security is now far beyond the (old) perimeter of the company’s premises and infrastructure, indeed network or systems is abstracted away with or without cloud/hybrid deployments and just the enforcing identity is not enough in most cases.
In my opinion, white-listing applications around code-signing and checking the integrity of our code it’s more effective and less painful than you can think a good habit to build on a daily basis.
As a DevOps, most of my energies are constantly focused on doing or fixing things right from the start with the intention of creating a simple or at least straightforward processes. But this is not an article on my endless war against technical debt and avoiding shortcuts whenever it’s possible.
the more things change, the more they stay the same
The values and the culture inherited from ITIL, Agile and DevOps massively influenced the whole modern software life cycle. CI/CD extended to code quality/testing/delivery etc.. In these years should have changed most of our daily tasks or our business-as-usual, right? Well… not yet! Continue reading “Application Deployment Troubleshooting with Powershell”