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Mar 8, 2021

Final Post — Concept: Alexa Golden Images with Packer on AWS, Azure, and GCP

Well friends…this is likely the last post I’ll write on this account. It’s been fun but I’m going to be moving on to Crypto related stuff (smart contracts, NFTs, Blender3D, etc) and leave the cloud security & automation posts here on this account. …

Packer

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Packer

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Jan 9, 2021

Simple Serverless Coding Challenge for Interviews

Happy New Year! So, I’ve been thinking lately about ways to add coding challenges to an interview process. They, of course, would be set up in an isolated account (AWS)/project(GCP)/subscription (AZURE). They would have environment variables that could change the answer. For this example, I’ll be using an unauthenticated GCP…

Google Cloud Platform

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Simple Serverless Coding Challenge for Interviews
Simple Serverless Coding Challenge for Interviews
Google Cloud Platform

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Aug 25, 2020

Drop the bastion in the clouds (AWS, Azure (kinda), and GCP)

I thought I’d put a post together after being inspired by this Cloud Village talk. I recommend giving it a watch. I’m just adding some additional info. So for many years and still now, a lot of companies still use initialize a bastion. Bastions are servers with the primary purpose…

AWS

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Drop the bastion in the clouds (AWS, Azure (kinda), and GCP)
Drop the bastion in the clouds (AWS, Azure (kinda), and GCP)
AWS

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Jul 27, 2020

Simple GCP Instance Scheduler (w/ Terraform, Cloud Function)

So I’m starting to pick up on this pattern that if I don’t do enough Terraform/CloudSec automation/Python/Go at work, I’ll end up doing it over the weekend. And if I’m getting my “fix”, I guess, I stop posting article for long periods of time….is this that thing they call balance…

Google Cloud Platform

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Simple GCP Instance Scheduler (w/ Terraform, Cloud Function)
Simple GCP Instance Scheduler (w/ Terraform, Cloud Function)
Google Cloud Platform

3 min read


Apr 23, 2020

3D Printing Ear Savers

Just a small journey on how I discovered and started printing Ear Savers — Hey Reader! I hope you’re doing well during quarantine. With all the content on the internet, I really appreciate that you’re right here, reading my thoughts. If you haven’t heard of them, Ear Savers are these little devices that remove the tension of the elastic bands of surgery mask off…

Cura

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3D Printing Ear Savers
3D Printing Ear Savers
Cura

6 min read


Mar 30, 2020

Cloud Build, Packer, and Qualys (Automated Golden Images with Vuln Scanning POC)

A few months ago, I wanted to set up a CI/CD pipeline and started with a Jenkins server. Right away, I was not a fan of the GUI and it didn’t seem like fun learning so I looked for an alternative and found the community around Cloud Build. If you…

Cloud Build

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Cloud Build, Packer, and Qualys (Automated Golden Images with Vuln Scanning POC)
Cloud Build, Packer, and Qualys (Automated Golden Images with Vuln Scanning POC)
Cloud Build

6 min read


Feb 19, 2020

Automating Authenticated Vulnerability Scanning of GCP Hosts with Rapid7’s InsightVM

…and I’m not just talking about run a scheduled scan with credentials already set. I’m talking about deploying a virtual scanner appliance into a subnetwork of a project in GCP (provided that you have the correct Organizational level role to do so), performing an ad-hoc scan against hosts (complete with…

Google Cloud Platform

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Automating Authenticated Vulnerability Scanning of GCP Hosts with Rapid7’s InsightsVM
Automating Authenticated Vulnerability Scanning of GCP Hosts with Rapid7’s InsightsVM
Google Cloud Platform

6 min read


Jan 2, 2020

Day 15 Solution to #25daysofserverless using Cloud Run and Go

I may be a tad late to this challenge but that may be because I had to learn a bit of Golang first. I’ve never really used it before but after a couple of weeks, honestly, it’s starting to grow on me. If you are looking to get started with…

25daysofserverless

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Day 15 Solution to #25daysofserverless using Cloud Run and Go
Day 15 Solution to #25daysofserverless using Cloud Run and Go
25daysofserverless

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Jun 24, 2019

Setting up a Bitcoin Node on GCP with Terraform

Hey all, it’s been a while since I posted but I’m back! I’ll be posting a lot more Google Cloud stuff as I’m learning it. The Terraform scripts for this are on my Github. This will provision a compute engine, set up a couple of firewall rules, and configure the…

Google Cloud Platform

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Setting up a Bitcoin Node on GCP with Terraform
Setting up a Bitcoin Node on GCP with Terraform
Google Cloud Platform

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May 26, 2019

Building a Serverless Acronym Bot on GCP using Cloud Functions

I was originally making this tutorial using DynamoDB, API Gateway and Lambda but I decided that I needed more practice with Google Cloud Platform. Setup The acronyms I’m using for this tutorial are from here. You’ll need to log into the Google Cloud Platform and create a new project if you…

Google Cloud Platform

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Building a Serverless Acronym Bot on GCP using Cloud Functions
Building a Serverless Acronym Bot on GCP using Cloud Functions
Google Cloud Platform

4 min read

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