Solutions from the DevOps front lines
I noticed around 2015 that SIEM became the new buzzword that IT consultancies started throwing around to sell things that sensible admins had already been doing for decades, namely a centralised platform for the stori...
Previously I’ve looked in detail at the uses of two of Hashicorp’s offering’s; Terraform and Vault. Predictably, the union of these two platforms allows for some ideal ways to further streamline the process of cloud p...
Even in the age of Linux dominance on public clouds, there’s no denying that Windows still rules the roost in on-premise deployments and Active Directory still lies at the heart of authentication schemes. AD is everyw...
In my recent posts I’ve covered the hardened setup of Vault and covered the basics of using the REST API. As we’ve seen so far, Vault is primarily designed for programmatic interactions from external systems via the A...
In my last post I covered the setup and hardening of Hashicorp’s Vault platform, in this post I’ll be looking at getting to grips with REST API and the Token authentication method. Tokens are core to the Vault authent...