Understanding Organizational Secrets

Let’s face it, IT often struggles with secrets management. From API keys that need to be registered/rotated, certificates that need to be requested/renewed, LDAP/AD credentials that need to be maintained, password complexity requirements to be enforced, and more. It can be cognitively difficult to manage the various secrets for a single project let alone an entire organization. This discussion will help define the credential categories and the tools used to manage them.

The Declarative Mindset

2020-07-11 10 min read Devops Zachary Loeber

I’m going to wax poetic on the virtues of declarative thinking within the IT industry. Along the way we will go over some definitions and introduce the pseudo-declarative manifest and how it can add value to a project.

Aws Testing With Localstack on Kubernetes

2020-05-21 3 min read Devops Aws Kubernetes Zachary Loeber

Testing out your AWS DevOps tricks in a local Kubernetes instance with localstack is pretty easy to do.

Artifact Types

2020-04-29 4 min read Devops Zachary Loeber

A build pipeline’s job is to create immutable artifacts. The type of artifact you build is highly dependant upon what purpose it serves. This article will go over types of artifacts found in various DevOps pipelines.