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How to Handle Secrets in Go
How to Handle Secrets in Go
Learn the best practices for handling secrets in Go in the cloud-native ecosystem.
Tiexin Guo
Sep 19
A Brief Introduction to Multicloud Security
A Brief Introduction to Multicloud Security
What multicloud is, challenges, security concerns, and best practices towards a secure multicloud architecture.
Tiexin Guo
Sep 3
Dependency Confusion Attacks and Prevention: Register Your Private Package Names
Dependency Confusion Attacks and Prevention: Register Your Private ...
Dependency confusion attacks exploit gaps in your software supply chain. Modern dependency management and best practices explained.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 25
Container Security Scanning: Vulnerabilities, Risks and Tooling
Container Security Scanning: Vulnerabilities, Risks and Tooling
Container vulnerabilities and container security scanning: tools, SCA, runtime security, and more.
Tiexin Guo
Jul 25
How to Handle Secrets in Jupyter Notebooks
How to Handle Secrets in Jupyter Notebooks
From entering passwords to using secret managers, this guide covers best practices for protecting sensitive info in your noteboooks.
Tiexin Guo
Jun 10
Open-Source Software Security
Open-Source Software Security
Learn about vulnerabilities, dependencies, and tools to improve open-source software security in this in-depth blog post.
Tiexin Guo
May 13
Pulumi V.S. Terraform: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your IaC Tool
Pulumi V.S. Terraform: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your IaC Tool
The definitive showdown between Pulumi and Terraform. Tips and FAQ included. Choose the right tool for the job.
Tiexin Guo
Feb 5
The New Frontier in Cybersecurity: Embracing Security as Code
The New Frontier in Cybersecurity: Embracing Security as Code
Unlock the power of secure SDLC with Security as Code. Embrace the future of cybersecurity now! Best practices included #SecurityAsCode
Tiexin Guo
Dec 26, 2023
10 New DevOps Tools to Watch in 2024
10 New DevOps Tools to Watch in 2024
Boost engineering productivity, cut down cost, enhance security — let’s cover 10 DevOps tools to watch and try for 2024. Get started now!
Tiexin Guo
Nov 4, 2023
How to Handle Secrets in Helm
How to Handle Secrets in Helm
Step-by-step guide and best practices to handle Helm chart secrets safely and effectively. Level up your Helm deploy today. Get started…
Tiexin Guo
Oct 25, 2023
Handling Secrets with AWS Secret Manager
Handling Secrets with AWS Secret Manager
This tutorial helps you better understand AWS Secrets Manager, how it works under the hood and how to access it from Kubernetes clusters.
Tiexin Guo
Sep 10, 2023
Handling Secrets with Google Cloud Secret Manager
Handling Secrets with Google Cloud Secret Manager
An insightful introduction to GCP’s Secret Manager and a tutorial on creating secrets and securing access within VMs and CI pipelines.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 29, 2023
Handling Secrets with Azure Key Vault
Handling Secrets with Azure Key Vault
This tutorial details how to manage secrets effectively using Azure Key Vault. You‘ll learn how to access secrets in VM and K8s/AKS.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 18, 2023
Securing your CI/CD by Removing Long-Lived Passwords: an OIDC Tutorial
Securing your CI/CD by Removing Long-Lived Passwords: an OIDC Tutorial
Securing CI/CD systems and offers three best practices; use OpenID Connect (OIDC) to employ short-lived tokens for improved CI security.
Tiexin Guo
Aug 9, 2023
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage — Part 2
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage...
Enhance your portal’s capabilities with plugins and unlock custom functionalities in the second part of our Backstage tour.
Tiexin Guo
Jul 12, 2023
Argo CD: a Revisit — Continuous Deployment with GitOps Automagically
Argo CD: a Revisit — Continuous Deployment with GitOps Automagically
An overview of CI/CD/GitOps/Argo CD, and some reasoning and stories behind them.
Tiexin Guo
Jul 3, 2023
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage — Part 1
Platform Engineering: Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage...
Build a developer portal with Backstage. In this tutorial, learn how to create a secure-by-default software catalog for repo bootstrapping.
Tiexin Guo
Jul 1, 2023
Platform Engineering and Security: A Very Short Introduction
Platform Engineering and Security: A Very Short Introduction
Is DevOps really dead? Learn about the rise of platform engineering and how it differs from DevOps.
Tiexin Guo
May 29, 2023
Supply Chain Security: Secrets and Modern Security Frameworks (Part III)
Supply Chain Security: Secrets and Modern Security Frameworks (Part...
In this final part, we’ll discuss more software supply chain security frameworks and the critical role of secrets detection in them.
Tiexin Guo
Apr 23, 2023
AWS Cognito: Integrating Cognito with a Web App
AWS Cognito: Integrating Cognito with a Web App
In this article, we will do a quick intro to AWS Cognito, and see a real-world example of how to integrate your Web App with it.
Tiexin Guo
Mar 22, 2023
Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage: a Comprehensive Tutorial
Building Your Developer Portal with Backstage: a Comprehensive Tuto...
A complete guide from the ground up: using backstage to build YOUR developer portal.
Tiexin Guo
Mar 7, 2023
Supply Chain Security: Sigstore and Cosign (Part II)
Supply Chain Security: Sigstore and Cosign (Part II)
The ability to sign and verify the integrity and origin of software artifacts, such as Docker images, is critical to supply chain security.
Tiexin Guo
Mar 2, 2023
Backstage is not user-friendly. I want something better.
Backstage is not user-friendly. I want something better.
As you guys all already know, I’m a DevOps engineer, if that’s still a thing. Because apparently nowadays, “DevOps is dead; long live…
Tiexin Guo
Feb 20, 2023
DevOps with Python: Python “concurrent.futures” Concurrency Tutorial — A Real-World Example
DevOps with Python: Python “concurrent.futures” Concurrency Tutoria...
A tutorial of Python’s concurrent.features with an real-world DevOps issue.
Tiexin Guo
Jan 31, 2023
A Comprehensive Tutorial on Service Mesh, Istio, Envoy, Access Log, and Log Filtering
A Comprehensive Tutorial on Service Mesh, Istio, Envoy, Access Log,...
Learn how to install Istio locally, play with Envoy’s access log and log filters, and apply those changes in your Istio’s sidecar.
Tiexin Guo
Jan 19, 2023
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