by ricktbaker | Nov 19, 2017 | DevOps, Ubuntu
Previously I wrote a post about joining your Ubuntu 16.04 server to Active Directory. This works well and what I have done with one of my clients is create an AMI within AWS that handles most of this. But, it still requires some manual interaction because during the...
by ricktbaker | Nov 16, 2017 | DevOps, Security
I spend a lot of time doing freelance / consulting work for a variety of businesses. One thing that I see more often than not is git repositories that are littered with passwords, access keys, secret credentials, etc. It’s bad practice from a security...
by ricktbaker | Nov 8, 2017 | DevOps, Ubuntu
There are quite a few guides lying around the internet for getting Ubuntu 16.04 working with Active Directory. I followed a few of them, and always ended up with problems. Can su – to the user, but can’t ssh. Can su – to the user and ssh as the user,...
by ricktbaker | Oct 24, 2017 | AWS, DevOps
With some of the recent search engine changes, It’s not uncommon to want your site to run completely under https. If you’re running on AWS with an Elastic LoadBalancer in place, then you have to go about it a bit differently so you don’t end up with...
