The CI/CD Of The Small Business World

DevSecOps is one of the most important shifts in modern systems.It is not DevOps with security added later.It is security designed into the CI/CD pipeline before the first commit.

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Building a Segmented, Secure Multi-Container Application with Podman

By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.” Modern web applications are never just one service.They’re a fortress of moving parts – and every connection is a potential attack surface.If you’re still putting the entire stack into one fat container…You’re building your future breach.

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🛠 Forged in Fire: Why Ansible Speaks the DeadSwitch Language

Posted by DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost“Code is noise until it becomes a weapon.” “When the mission demands silence, precision is non-negotiable.” There are tools. And then there are instruments. Ansible is not just a configuration manager. It’s a scalpel for systems, forged in the fire of chaos and hardened by time. It’s agentless, scriptable,…

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🛡️ DeadSwitch Vault Minimal Pack Goes Open Source

“Hardening begins at the roots. In silence, the foundations are set.” The open source version of the DeadSwitch Vault Minimal Pack is now live. 🌀 GitHub Repo:🔗 https://github.com/DeadSwitch404/vault-minimal

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🔐 Vault Minimal: When the System Whispers, We Harden

Posted by DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.” “The system speaks in ports and packages. Listen close, or get breached.” The silence has been broken, but not by noise – by intention. Today, DeadSwitch drops the first ember of a fire that’s about to cleanse weak configurations off…

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Writing Your Own Ansible Role: A Comprehensive Guide Using Industry-Standard Tools and Software

Automation has become a cornerstone of modern IT operations, and Ansible stands as one of the most popular tools for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. Ansible simplifies these processes through its role-based approach, making it easier to manage complex infrastructure and streamline workflows. In this blog post, we will explore how to create…

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What is DevSecOps and Why is it Good for Enterprises and Small Businesses?

DevSecOps is a term that combines development, security, and operations. It is a framework that integrates security into all phases of the software development lifecycle, from planning to deployment and beyond. DevSecOps aims to make security a shared responsibility of everyone involved in the software delivery process, rather than a separate function that is performed…

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Loops in the Ansible code – the basics of iteration

Ansible loops and conditional statements are very cool inventions, but they are a double edged sword as well. The limitless freedom they give us can turn our roles into horrible mess. It is our responsibility to balance on the edge and use just the right amount of them in our code while we keep in…

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The future of DevOps

A lot of people are talking about the future of the IT, the traditional operations work, and they are trying to guess whether they will have a job in IT in the future. As I see most IT colleagues feel some uncertainty about their jobs. Different positions (and position names) come and go at the…

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