Cyber Security, DevOps, DevSecOps and Technology
As IT architects and security architects, we continually seek innovative solutions to enhance our work and fortify our systems against emerging threats. One powerful tool at our disposal is Bing AI. In this blog post, we will explore how we can effectively leverage Bing AI to elevate our capabilities, improve decision-making, and strengthen security measures. Let’s dive into the ways we can harness the power of Bing AI as a valuable resource in our roles.
Web application security is of paramount importance in today’s digital landscape. Organizations need robust tools to identify vulnerabilities and safeguard their applications against potential threats. One such powerful solution is Burp Suite Community—a comprehensive web application security testing tool developed by PortSwigger.
In this blog post, we will explore the installation process and highlight the key features that make Burp Suite Community an invaluable asset for security professionals and penetration testers.
As DevOps practitioners, we know that managing infrastructure can be a daunting task. That’s why we use configuration management tools to automate the repetitive processes and reduce manual effort. One such tool that has gained popularity in recent years is Ansible. In this post, we will discuss the main advantages of Ansible compared to other configuration management tools.
Ansible is one of the popular IT automation tools used to make complex configuration, software provisioning, application deployment, and management tasks easier. It is used in IT operational tasks such as:
In this guide on PostgreSQL Database Management with Ansible, I will show you how to automate PostgreSQL operations using Ansible.
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, effective orchestration and automation of IT operations are paramount for maintaining efficiency and scalability. DevOps teams constantly seek innovative solutions to streamline their workflows and enhance collaboration. This blog post explores the combination of Rundeck, a powerful job scheduler, and Docker, a lightweight containerization platform, with the added prowess of Ansible for configuration management.
By integrating these tools, teams can achieve a seamless and efficient orchestration pipeline. Let’s delve into how we can harness the power of Rundeck in Docker with Ansible.
Continue reading “Streamline Your DevOps Workflow: Leveraging Rundeck in Docker with Ansible”Cybersecurity and security testing are important to be part of automation and CI/CD because they help ensure that software is secure and free from vulnerabilities. By integrating security testing into the development process, developers can identify and fix security issues early on, reducing the risk of security breaches and data loss.
Continue reading “Fortifying the Foundations: Unveiling the Crucial Role of Cyber Security and Security Testing in Automation and CI/CD Pipelines”Ansible Semaphore is a web-based tool for managing Ansible projects and workflows. It provides a graphical user interface that allows us to view and manage our Ansible tasks, playbooks, and inventories in a centralized location. With Semaphore, we can easily manage and monitor our Ansible workflows, schedule and automate tasks, and collaborate with team members in a seamless way. This tool simplifies the management of Ansible projects, making it more accessible to users who may not be familiar with command-line interfaces or coding.
Semaphore is written in Go language, and it is available for Windows, macOS and Linux (x64, ARM, ARM64). Ansible Semaphore is an open-source project with high-quality code.
We will install and configure Ansible Semaphore in Docker, and take a look at its interface and configuration.
Continue reading “Enhancing Ansible Automation: Exploring the Power of Ansible Semaphore, a Modern Open-Source GUI”Ansible is an open-source automation tool that allows you to automate IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration. Ansible uses a simple YAML syntax called playbooks to define automation tasks.
With tweaking our project directory a bit we can achieve a very flexible and comfortable structure.
Continue reading “Let’s use a more flexible directory structure for an Ansible project”Automation is important in IT operations because it helps reduce costs, increases productivity, ensures high availability of systems, increases reliability, and optimizes the performance. One way to achieve automation in IT operations is through infrastructure as code (IaC).
IaC is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files.
Continue reading “Why automation and Infrastructure as Code are important in IT operations?”Ansible callback plugins enable adding new behaviors to Ansible when responding to events. By default, callback plugins control most of the output we see when running the command line programs, but can also be used to add additional output, integrate with other tools and marshal the events to a storage backend.
Continue reading “How to use Ansible callback plugins?”What is your opinion? Do you think an online webinar would be beneficial for your career about Ansible, the basics of infrastructure automation and such topics? Let’s vote and comment!
Installing web servers, database services and such tools are tedious task especially when we have to repeat it over and over again, for example in a test environment.
Here are some useful playbooks that we can use to simplify the process.
Continue reading “Installing web and database servers on Debian Bullseye with Ansible playbooks”
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