Hardening Your CI/CD: Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes Security

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 deployment to Kubernetes. In addition to this, we’ll add some security components to the build and deployment process....

March 1, 2024 · 11 min · Scott

Build Secure Python Pipelines: Adding Tests and Hooks in Action

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, Adding pre-commit Hooks to Python Repo Writing Tests For Your Python Project I still wanted to incorporate these together in a meaningful way. My goal is to help anyone that is trying to figure out how to piece together their own pipeline....

February 18, 2024 · 20 min · Scott

Getting Started with Secure CI/CD: Essential Practices for Beginners

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: Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Essential Security Measures Automate Your Database Changes with a CI/CD Pipeline How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Your Database Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and GitHub Actions: A Kubernetes Case Study Adding pre-commit Hooks to Python Repo Writing Tests For Your Python Project All of these articles are a scattering of topics based upon some of the daily randomness that I’ve faced in my work life....

February 4, 2024 · 7 min · Scott

Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Essential Security Measures

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 devops journey was to start to look into securing the CI/CD pipeline. My previous posts were some ways that I was able to make my own personal infrastructure easier to maintain while at the same time learning various devops tools....

November 16, 2023 · 13 min · Scott

Automate Your Database Changes with a CI/CD Pipeline

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 going to setup a very simple repo that will make use of my deployed database. This new repo is going to leverage a popular tool called Liquibase to implement our changes to the database....

November 8, 2023 · 10 min · Scott