Journey of an IT Architect
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IAM Roles for any workload
ReadBackground A few month back a client of mine wanted to use GitLab pipeline to deploy infrastructure on AWS with Terraform. The key question is…
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Managing EC2 instances across AWS accounts
ReadI regard AWS Systems Manager highly as omnipotent. Nonetheless, there are a few reasons that makes Ansible still a prevalent VM (EC2) management tool over…
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Public Key Infrastructure 3 of 3 – PKI Implementation
ReadAfter the last two post, now we can focus on PKI implementation. The use case is software testing, where we need to create and recycle…
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Public Key Infrastructure 2 of 3 – Certificate Automation
ReadFollowing the last post on PKI, we’ll discuss automation of certificate issuance. Two key activities to automate are: validation of the requestor and issuance of…
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Public Key Infrastructure 1 of 3 – Basics
ReadIn 2021, I wrote an intro to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Now that I have to host my own certificate authority, I decide to dive…
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Workload Identity on Kubernetes 2 of 2 – EKS
ReadI discussed in my previous post on workload identity and dived into how it works in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service). In this post I will…