Turn your AWS DevSecOps Pipeline into a bunker

This post was co-authored by Teddy Ferdinand. Who is working as Cloud Security Architect 🐻 Introduction In this series, we will talk about the emergence of the DevSecOps movement, and more especially, what the benefits are of introducing a DevSecOps approach to your existing CI/CD Pipelines. CI/CD Pipeline To give you some context, you will find in the diagram below a standard DevOps CI/CD Pipeline. DevSecWhat? DevSecOps could be defined as a shift from a central internal security team to the inclusion of security practices in the existing DevOps teams: DevSecOps 🎉 ...

June 18, 2020 · 8 min · 1513 words · Victor Grenu

Update on being Independent [6 months later]

This post is the second part of a series about my journey as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect. Status As I already told you in the first part, I started my own business in early January 2020. After the first 6 months of being an Independent AWS Architect in France, I’m very happy with this move, no regret, and I don’t see any upcoming U-turn to come back as a full-time employee. ...

June 1, 2020 · 4 min · 664 words · Victor Grenu

Tracking Amazonians on Twitter

TL;DR: I search “@awscloud” in their Twitter Bio and add their profiles to a public Twitter list. One opportunity to get fresh news from the AWS ecosystem is to follow relevant current or former Amazon (Web Services) employees called Amazonians on Twitter, but it can be difficult to stalk their profiles across the myriad of user profiles talking about #AWS subjects… Lately, I was working on a quick Python Proof of Concept (another excuse to ramp up my Python 🐍 skills) to query the Twitter API to find profiles with a specific Twitter description/bio, and I asked myself if I could use this to find more and more AWS employees :roll_eyes: ...

April 19, 2020 · 3 min · 621 words · Victor Grenu

GitHub Actions with AWS: Hands-On

Hi Folks, Lately, I was experimenting with GitHub Actions (GHA), as it has been a buzzword since General Availability (GA), but I didn’t take the time to try it before. I’ve done it for you folks. 🙌 Context GHA was released on GA in November 2019, the main features are: Automate development workflows (CI/CD): build, test, deploy Hosted runners / self-hosted runners Automate the management of your GH Community: PR, Code Reviews, or Issue Tracking Built-in secrets store ...

March 29, 2020 · 6 min · 1258 words · Victor Grenu

Level-up your Home Observability

Hey folks, Recently, I was trying to level up the observability of my home automation system, and I was inspired by what has been done by Carmelo and Patrick, who had similar experiences for their own needs. TL;DR 1 2 3 git clone https://gitlab.com/z0ph/tower-control.git docker-compose up -d open http://localhost:3000 # admin/admin Going Further :mag_right: Previously, the only graph that I had was the built-in graph from my home automation system, Jeedom, and it was pretty bad (see below). ...

March 21, 2020 · 3 min · 594 words · Victor Grenu