Martez Reed- 23 Apr, 2024
Integrating Gitness with Jenkins
Jenkins is a popular open source CI server and many that are familiar with it often have a bit of a love/hate relationship. That being said, it is an …
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Martez Reed
- 11 Apr, 2024
Getting Started with Gitness
With everything being defined as code nowadays, there’s a need for a place to store and version that code. The popular selection would be a …
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Martez Reed
- 11 Feb, 2024
Getting Started with Argo Workflows
One of the technologies that I find the most enjoyable working with are orchestration solutions that are used to stitch together complex processes. …
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Martez Reed
- 13 Jul, 2022
Detecting HashiCorp Vault Policy Changes
Security of a HashiCorp Vault deployment is of paramount importance given the sensitive nature of the information contained within the platform. …
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Martez Reed
- 17 May, 2022
HashiCorp Terraform Checksum Verification
How do we verify that the Terraform binary we download is the same as the one HashiCorp produced? Ensuring the integrity of software is important to …
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Martez Reed
- 16 May, 2022
HashiCorp Terraform Code Signing
Signing software has become critically important given the recent supply chain attacks. How do we verify that the software we’re downloading is …
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Martez Reed
- 22 Apr, 2022
Building a Lightweight Container Host for VMware vSphere
Containerization and Kubernetes have dominated the IT conversation for the last handful of years. Containers enable rapid development, application …
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Martez Reed
- 21 Apr, 2022
Enabling Cloud Workload Identity for vSphere Virtual Machines
One of the major benefits of using the public cloud is the integrated identity and access management (IAM). This simplifies the process of granting …
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Martez Reed
- 01 Dec, 2021
HashiCorp Vault Unique AppRole Identity Logging
HashiCorp Vault supports several authentication methods for human and non-human access. Several of the non-human authentication methods are tied to …
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Martez Reed
- 27 Aug, 2021
VMware vSphere VM iPXE Boot without DHCP
Network booting operating systems isn’t a new concept and has been around for years. Bare metal deployments are typically where network booting is …
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Martez Reed
- 16 Feb, 2021
HashiCorp Vault vSphere Authentication with VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)
HashiCorp Vault supports a number of authentication methods including methods that utilize what HashiCorp refers to as a “trusted …
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Martez Reed
- 24 Jun, 2020
Deployment Pipeline Chaos Engineering with StackStorm and ChaosToolkit
Chaos Engineering is the practice of experimenting or injecting faults into a system to test how the system responds to the failure …
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Martez Reed
- 25 May, 2020
Identifying Active HashiCorp Vault Root Tokens
Revoking the root token on a production HashiCorp Vault deployment is one of the recommended best practices for securing an instance of HashiCorp …
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Martez Reed
- 20 May, 2020
Detecting HashiCorp Vault Root Token Generation
HashiCorp Vault generates a default root token during installation and best practice dictates that the token should be revoked once the deployment has …
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Martez Reed
- 09 Feb, 2020
Detecting HashiCorp Vault Root Login
Security of a HashiCorp Vault deployment is of paramount importance given the sensitive nature of the information contained within the platform. …
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Martez Reed
- 26 Nov, 2019
Puppet Bolt Vault Inventory Plugin
In this blog post we’ll look at the HashiCorp Vault plugin for Puppet Bolt that enables authentication credentials for Bolt to be retrieved from …
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Martez Reed
- 06 Oct, 2019
Puppet Bolt Terraform Inventory Plugin
HashiCorp Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that is used for provisioning virtual machines or cloud instances along with other …
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Martez Reed
- 06 Aug, 2019
Advanced VMware vSphere Template Orchestration
Template management is a critical facet of infrastructure management and traditionally one of the more challenging operations there is. The advent of …
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Martez Reed
- 10 Jul, 2019
Terraform Puppet Provisioner
HashiCorp Terraform 0.12.2 added official support for a Puppet provisioner. One caveat is that the provisioner is only available in 0.12.x of …
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Martez Reed
- 07 Aug, 2018
Vault Hardening Compliance using Chef InSpec
HashiCorp Vault is quickly becoming the defacto secrets management platform used in environments that rely on DevOps concepts for application …
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Martez Reed
- 01 Feb, 2018
Vault Audit Logging
Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io/) is a secrets management tool created by HashiCorp that is extremely popular. Given the sensitive nature of the …
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Martez Reed
- 30 Oct, 2017
Terraform AWS S3 State Management Least Privilege
A very popular Terraform state management configuration is to utilize AWS S3 for state management and AWS DynamoDB for state locking. The problem is …
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Martez Reed
- 13 Oct, 2017
vSphere Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
What is immutable infrastructure? Immutable infrastructure is the concept of utilizing an infrastructure component in an ephemeral manner. This means …
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Martez Reed
- 03 Feb, 2017
vSphere Alarms with Slack and StackStorm
Being notified of when something happens in your environment has always been important and has evolved over time from basic emails to IM messages via …
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Martez Reed
- 14 Jul, 2016
Jenkins Certified Engineer: Folders
This post covers the section listed below on the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) exam. Section #3: Building Continuous Delivery (CD) Pipelines …
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Martez Reed
- 15 Mar, 2016
Jenkins Certified Engineer: Fingerprints
This post covers the section listed below on the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) exam. Section #1: Key CI/CD/Jenkins Concepts Fingerprints What are …
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Martez Reed
- 13 Jan, 2016
Jenkins Job Builder
Recently a co-worker of mine (Thanks Ken Erwin) introduced me to Jenkins Job Builder (http://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/) which is a …
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Martez Reed
- 20 Nov, 2015
Jenkins Active Directory
This post covers integrating Jenkins CI server with Microsoft Active Directory to provide centralized authentication. Step #1 - Install he Active …