Tag: automated security
Scaling DevOps at Pearson
Pearson might be one of the more influential companies you have never heard of. Its footprint in the educational publishing marketplace is expansive, and its scope was just one challenge when it ...
Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
Admiral Calcote, also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends, gave a presentation titled, "Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators," at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. Okay, he isn’t really an admiral—nor ...
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security ...
All Day DevOps: Taking Lambda to the Max
Lambda is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, and it is also the name of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) service that lets you run code without actually configuring a server ...
How To Fully Automate CI/CD – Even Secrets
Imagine a world where your continuous integration/continuous deployment environment is 100 percent automated, including the passing of credentials. Capital One, a leading U.S. bank, has achieved this, and Andrey Utis, director of ...
Automated Testing: Remember Security
Between continuous integration (CI) and release automation (RA), we’ve come a long way in making testing both integral and automated. This testing has allowed QA staff and developers to spend more time ...
IoT Forcing the Coming DevOps Deluge
We can look back over the last few years and easily pick out the organizations that picked up DevOps and ran with it, forwarding the science of DevOps while benefitting the most ...
All Day DevOps: System Hardening with Ansible
The DevOps pipeline is constantly changing. Therefore, relevant security controls must be applied contextually. We want to be secure, but I think all of us would rather spend our time developing and ...
All Day DevOps: Exploring the New Ordinary
There you were. You heard about Docker, become mesmerized, floated into its new, special world ... and then all chaos broke out. Things were not that easy and you scrambled for knowledge ...
DevOps: Making the Boring Things Stay Boring
“I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords,” is the title of Mykel Alvis’ (@mykelalvis) session at the 2016 All Day DevOps Conference. He wasn’t trying to curry favor with the new robot rulers, ...
SecDevOps: Security Automation By Example – The Firewall Change
Security Automation By Example The Firewall Change Just when you thought DevOps was the new black, along comes SecDevOps. Yes folks, like most things in life, the new cool is already here ...
What is Security Policy Orchestration and Why Should DevOps Teams Care?
After attending the DevOps day I wrote about in my last post, I wanted to take a minute to explain exactly what Security Policy Orchestration actually is so we can begin to ...