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Jun 25, 2018Today I was presented with a common problem: I have a private key file I must distribute to my team members securely. How do I do it? My first thought is that I could email it to them all, but our email is retained for...
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Oct 27, 2017For the past five years my wife and I have built increasingly elaborate props for our yard and charity haunted house. We make a great team because I enjoy building the mechanical, electronic, and software pieces to make things run and she, as a designer,...
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Jan 17, 2017After a week of poking and prodding at the Kafka streams API and reading through tons of docs and confusing examples I have finally distilled it down to its simplest form and I think I can help all the people, like me, out there struggling...
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Sep 28, 2016The Problem, You have a dockerized application that needs 50+ environment variables that are different based on the execution environment. Let me explain how I made this completely painless with some clever design and hashicorp's vault...
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May 18, 2016If you want to run your own Docker Registry using registry-v2 this post is for you! Its pretty simple but there are a few gotchas you need to know about. The purpose of this blog post is to help you past the problems so you experience the joy of setting up and having your own private docker registry at little to no cost (depending on if you want to purchase SSL certs or not.)...
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Mar 14, 2016A lot of friends and colleague over the years have asked me to explain this to them and I figured it was time to write a blog post about it so that more people can see how I personally approach equity offerings presented with an employment contract....
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Nov 16, 2015Once upon a time there was a company that during acquisition was presented with hundreds of due diligence questions as well as SOX compliance requirements. This story is how a team were covered through their early investment in DevOps disciplines, mindsets, and processes. Learn how to subscribe to DevOps practices automatically, build in resiliency, checks & balances, reproducibility, system and user auditing, and more....
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Sep 18, 2015If you've created Docker containers and put them on the central registry then you know that you can have DockerHub do the builds for you using the "Automated Build" feature. This is a great feature for maintaining relatively stable projects with infrequent changes but if you're living the agile life and iterating quick and often, you're going to find yourself wanting more....
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Sep 7, 2015Over the weekend I decided to setup one of my opensource projects to build its docker image, push it to the registry, and deploy that new container to my digital ocean server using CircleCI. It turned out to be super simple and I wanted to share all the details...
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Jan 31, 2015After doing a security audit of our webapp, we discovered that our SSL certs and settings needed some updating. One of the most major things was that the certs where generated using SHA1 which is dangerously weak and becomes more so every day....
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