A hallmark of DevOps is the constant search for more secure methods to protect infrastructure, a process known as hardening. Part two of “Securing Our AWS Infrastructure” details how we integrated CloudWatch with CloudTrail and set up alarms for crucial activities.
A hallmark of DevOps is the constant search for more secure methods to protect infrastructure, a process known as hardening. One change we recently implemented was to move away from managing SSH keys and whitelisting IP’s to leveraging AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to securely connect to our EC2 instances.
A few tricks for storing configuration secrets in Vault.
How I use a daily checklist.
At CTL, we've been using smoketest for several years now. It is a standard part of our stack now and has helped us prevent numerous issues from making it to production as well as simplified and sped up the identification and fixing of production environment issues.