Terraform has become the standard for managing cloud infrastructure, and with good reason. It provides consistent, repeatable deployments and integrates with almost every cloud provider. But there’s one piece that’s often overlooked until it causes problems: the Terraform state file. Your terraform.tfstate file is more than just metadata — it’s the single source of truthContinueContinue reading “How to Secure Your Terraform State File in Azure”
Tag Archives: Secruity
How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell
Fortify, a security scanning tool for code, has some great features but also some limiting features. Therefore I sought to use their open REST API to expand on its functionality to enhance how we are using it within the DevOps pipeline. This was of course step one to find how to authenticate with Fortify toContinueContinue reading “How to authenticate with Fortify Security with PowerShell”
Setting Bearer tokens in PowerShell
This is a quick post to put out how to set a Bearer Token using PowerShell for Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest as it was something I could not find a clear explaining post.
Resharper DotCover Analyse for Visual Studio Team Services
Do you use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for Builds and/or Releases? Do you use Resharper DotCover? Do you want to use them together? Then boy do I have an extension for you!
That might be a corny introduction, but it is exactly what I have here.
How to Self Authenticate in .NET MVC C#
When you build your website application and you have a sign in section, most people use their own cookies to store the user information to validate the users is logged in, but with .NET MVC you can use the built in authentication to sign in, sign out and control there role.
Dont be a fool and use the back up tools
Backing up your data is the most vital part of any business and individual person can do. This is the biggest must, but people still don’t think about it. Due to recent events I think it would be good to share my views and tips on the best solutions.
When will hardware hit the wall
Hardware is becoming more and more amazing, but it is getting to that limit of, what can you do next. Most every update in hardware these days is new CPU, better RAM and better graphics. Only problem is CPU is so fast no one really notices or cares about faster. RAM is up to like 16GB to 32GB commercially, which for the generally user is more than perfect. Graphics are normally 1080p, but can go to 4K which is as good as the human eye can see.
PRISM and snoopers
Just listening to a podcast and they were saying about governments reading your email and how they are trying to find ways to encrypt their data, so I just thought I would put my opinion.