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Migrating my WordPress blogs to Hugo
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Tips & How-To's
WordPress
Hugo
Migration
I started blogging with WordPress about 13 years ago. I had some free time since the joining date for my first job was about a month or so away. Armed with boredom, an Internet connection and an ample amount of free time, I started Sathya Says on WordPress.com hosting. Soon after, I came to know about domains, shared hosting and self-hosted WordPress and with my first ever salary, purchased sathyasays.com, shared hosting and started writing about Linux experiences.
Securing your workloads on Azure
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Talks
Security
Azure
I had the privilege of being able to talk about what you can do to improve your Azure account security and improve the security posture of your workloads running on Azure as part of Microsoft For Startups’ Highway to a 100 Unicorns - Scale Up Thursdays webinar series. You can catch the video on demand by registering over at https://aka.ms/secgen. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck as well on my Talks section.
Securing workloads on Azure
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This talk looks at some of the guidelines to be followed when improving the security of your workloads.
Running Folding@Home on AWS with AWS CDK
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DevOps
Aws
AWS CDK
Folding@Home
Folding@Home(aka FAH) is a distributed computing project. To quote from their website,
FAH is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. Folding@Home involves you donating your spare computing power by running a small client on your computer. The client then contacts the Folding@Home Work Assignment server, gets some workunits and runs them, You can choose to have it run when only when your system is idle, or have it run all the time.
AWS Fargate instead of Amazon EC2 instances for one-off tasks
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This talk looks at why you should be using AWS Fargate for one-off tasks.
At AWS re:Invent 2019
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Events
Aws
ReInvent
I’ve always dreamed of being at reInvent and this year, not only do I get to be at re:Invent, I also get a chance to lead a Dev Chat. I’m really excited to be there, to present and more importantly, to meet and interact with other AWS Heroes and re:Invent participants.
Last year, I was honoured to being named as one of the Community Heroes and almost made it to re:Invent 2018.
Setting up a secure Docker image scanning solution with Anchore and Drone CI
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DevOps
Anchore
Container Security
Containers
Docker
A while back I had done a round up of a few container scanning solutions and had mentioned I wanted to take another look at Anchore. The past few days, I’ve been playing a bit with Anchore - this time, integrating it with Drone CI.
Drone is a “Container-Native, Continuous Delivery Platform” built using Go. It makes use of a YAML file, .drone.yml to define and execute the pipeline.
End Goal # For this project, we will be integrating Drone and Anchore.
So I wrote a book: presenting Practical Docker With Python
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General
Books
Docker
So yeah that actually happened! I’ve always wanted to publish a book and thanks to Apress publishing - that is a reality now. The book is titled “Practical Docker With Python: Build, Release and Distribute your Python App with Docker” and is targeted at people who are new to Docker and want to containerize their application (with an example Python chat bot). The book starts with a brief introduction to containers and Docker, guides you on how to get started with Docker before diving into deeper topics such as Docker Networks, Volumes and Compose.
Securing Containers
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The talk looks at threat vectors to containers and how they can be mitigated.
On Securing Containers and Open Source tools for scanning vulnerabilities in Docker images
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DevOps
Containers
Docker
Security
I recently published couple of articles elsewhere:
How to Increase Container Security and Ward Off Threats - Adobe Tech Blog 5 OpenSource tools for container security - OpenSource.com Scanning Docker Images for Vulnerabilities with Aqua Microscanner - previously, on my blog Do give them a read.