Tips & How-To's
Migrating my WordPress blogs to Hugo
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Securing your workloads on Azure
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Running Folding@Home on AWS with AWS CDK
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Setting up a secure Docker image scanning solution with Anchore and Drone CI
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Scanning Docker Image for Vulnerabilities with Aqua MicroScanner
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Containers are slowly becoming the standardized units of deployment. As containers become more popular, they also become the focus targets for attacking the system via vulnerabilities present in the packages within the image. There are quite a few container vulnerability scanning solutions (example: Clair, Twistlock, now Prisma Cloud, Aqua – however most of them are either commercial or require an elaborate setup, which makes it difficult for individual developers to involve them as part of the container build process.
Convert newsletters to RSS feeds with Kill-The-Newsletter
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Long time, no write! Newsletters have become all the rage these days and I guess for good reason - they’re curated, come in (usually) once a week and typically offer a respite from the deluge of news that comes in why typical RSS Feeds or via Twitter. Naturally I subscribed to few initially and then the list of newsletters increased - and now I am stuck with a newsletter bomb in my Inbox
Accessing Chef Databag Items from within attributes
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Of nginx’s mid cut off responses and proxy buffers
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Sathya
Among the services I look after, the biggest and high-profile - is the user facing website. The website is your bog-standard typical frontend(powered by Express/Angular) which fetches data via an API which is powered by the backend(built on Rails). Typical flow is that Express receives the request from the browser, makes a request to the backend which is then served using Rails API via nginx which acts as the reverse proxy.