Architecture My top tips for effective, maintainable and safe Terraform 0.12 projects Starting with Terraform is easy, using it safely and effectively is hard. From working in the trenches, these are my tips to make life easier and avoid disaster. OK a little dramatic, but
Architecture Architecting in the Cloud: Taking on the GCP Dress4Win Case Study - Part 1 One thing that I wasn't so keen on the AWS Certification exam was the case studies that were used in questions seemed quite shallow (mainly because they don't cross across questions). Google has
Architecture SecOps: Integrating security from the start Roll up, new *Ops term of the year - SecOps. Cynicism aside this is something that is both a passion of mine and a concept I believe will become increasingly more important. The
Django Drag-and-drop AJAX Lists with Django A shorter one for today. I had a proof of concept to put together a few weeks ago that required an order list of items which I needed to be able to reorder.
5 reasons why you should choose Google Cloud Platform Let's address the elephant in the room - Google Cloud Platform is well and truly the underdog, with a comparative tiny share in comparision on AWS and Azure. However, dig a little deeper
Architecture Day 2 after going live. Monitoring? Backups? Maintainability? Crazy talk!?! Monitoring? Backups? Maintainability? Crazy talk!?! Only thinking of these things after you have gone live? You've probably already shot yourself in the proverbial foot.
Architecture Awesome HTTP Load Balancing on Docker with Traefik Why Traefik?Traefik is the up-and-coming 'Edge Router / Proxy' for all things cloud. Full disclosure, I like it. The cut back features compared to products like F5 which I have used throughout my
Architecture Deploying HA WordPress on AWS using Terraform and Salt Love it or hate it WordPress is still around to stay. It is still the go-to for creating websites, thanks to a massive amount of plugins, themes and experience floating around for it.
Hashicorp Creating a LAMP AMI using Packer and Salt This is the first in a series of posts to create an Infrastructure as Code powered deployment of WordPress running on Amazon Web Services. This one's going to be pretty short, partly down
Python Using django-allauth for Google Login to any Django App A recent app I have been working on, I wanted to allow login via Google, but wanted to ensure that only pre-approved users could login using social login . This tutorial will cover extending django-allauth to allow pre-approved social logins only.
Docker Hardening Traefik when using the Docker Provider traefik-prism is a simple Python script that takes a valid Traefik Dynamic Config and publishes it to an Internet facing container, which isn't attached to Docker, reducing the attack surface compared to attaching the Docker Socket directly to your internet facing Traefik container.
Cookiecutter Coming Soon - Django Cookiecutter eBook I 💗 django-cookiecutter. It should be in any Django developer's toolkit to supercharge their new project. It's a fine bit of work, led by one of the authors of what I consider to be
Architecture Reccomended Read - The Pheonix Project This is my go-to book for anyone either working in a DevOps environment, or considering adopting DevOps principles. It is an incredibly refreshing book - the novel style of the book is one
Docker Why you need Single Node Swarm for Development Docker Swarm has matured enough that it's adoption is starting to pickup. Docker Captains are working with real clients rolling it out everyday. That's fine for clustered workloads, but what about locally? Should
