Turn your AWS DevSecOps Pipeline into 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 are the benefits of introducing a DevSecOps approach on 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 into the existing DevOps teams: DevSecOps 🎉...

June 18, 2020 · 8 min · 1520 words · zoph

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’ve already told you in the first part, I’ve 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 won’t see any upcoming U-turn move to come back as a full-time employee....

June 1, 2020 · 4 min · 668 words · zoph

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 AWS ecosystem is to follow relevant current or former Amazon (Web Services) employees called Amazonians on Twitter, but it could 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 Twitter API to found profiles with a specific twitter description/bio, and I questioned myself if I could use this to find more and more AWS employees :roll_eyes:...

April 19, 2020 · 3 min · 573 words · zoph

GitHub Actions with AWS: Hands-On

Hi Folks, Lately, I was experimenting with GitHub Actions (GHA), as it is a buzzword since General Availability (GA), but I didn’t take 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 My Objectives Replace my manually (Makefile) deployed pet projects....

March 29, 2020 · 6 min · 1138 words · zoph

Level-up your Home Observability

Hey folks, Recently, I was trying to level-up my observability for 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 $ 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 · 584 words · zoph