As I continue this series on CI/CD pipeline security, it is time to now work on securely building and deploying our application. This post picks up where my Build Secure Python Pipelines: Adding Tests and Hooks in Action post left off. In this post, we’ll continue our pipeline development by adding a container build and … Read more
As we continue this series started in my Getting Started with Secure CI/CD: Essential Practices for Beginners post, I’ll be securing my Python code with automated testing and hooks. While some of this information builds on some previous posts I’ve created in the past, I still wanted to incorporate these together in a meaningful way. … Read more
I think it’s time to focus on a few key practices for beginners to implement secure CI/CD. I’ve been building the idea on the idea of a CI/CD pipeline in a bunch of the below posts: All of these articles are a scattering of topics based upon some of the daily randomness that I’ve faced … Read more
I previously blogged about Starboard and How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster. These articles were focused more on vulnerability and configuration management. Now, I wanted to focus my attention on runtime security observability using Tetragon. Getting Started With Tetragon The first step is to install it. The Tetragon website recommends … Read more
In previous posts,How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster and Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Starboard Audit Reports: A Practical Guide, I started working through the different security reports available from the Starboard security scanner. The next step is to begin reviewing starboard Infrastructure Scans for security insights. Getting an … Read more
In my How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster post, I first installed Starboard and reviewed a vulnerability scan report. After reviewing the results, I then tried to action some of the vulnerabilities in my MySQL deployment. In addition to vulnerability scans, Starboard can also conduct configuration audits of your Kubernetes … Read more
In my previous post, How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster, I successfully secured my Bitnami MySQL deployment. The problem is that I also broke my Bitnami MySQL deployment. By upgrading the deployment, I lost the curl command that I used to pull down sample data into my pod. I realized … Read more
In my Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Essential Security Measures post, I started to tinker with SecOps a little with Terrascan. I also stumbled upon another tool called Starboard from Aqua security. In this post, I’m going to focus on using Starboard installation and usage as a Kubernetes Operator to see … Read more
If you take a look at this blog, you’ll see that I’ve begun to tinker with devops quite a bit. If you’ve ever taken the trouble to look me up on LinkedIn, you’ll also see that I’ve had a little history doing security stuff. Given my love of security, the next logical step of my … Read more
I first started talking about building a database CI/DI pipeline in my previous post, How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Your Database. That previous post was focused more on the infrastructure that would be managed by the DevOps team. Now I want to focus on efficient database management with CI/CD. In this post, I’m … Read more