Maven and Nexus Tutorial: Part 3 Nexus is used as a medium between components.Repositories:Plugin: where to fetch build pluginsRepository: similar to above, where to find plugins, parent poms, etcDistribution repository: where to transmit built things. If you
tutorial Maven and Nexus Tutorial: Part 2 Pom RelationshipsAll POMs can have a parent POM. They can share a parent. The parent POMs store common settings (e.g. nexus creds, clover license, fixed versions of plugins)POMs can have modules
tutorial Maven and Nexus Tutorial: Part 1 Apache Maven is the logical successor to Ant is remains one of the most popular tools of orchestrating build environments and steps for Java based build. Maven is entirely java based making it
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 7 Many Enterprise features will make their way to OSS. However, as solid as the OSS version is, there are features as Enterprises scale that make the Enterprise offering make more sense
blog Automating Blog Updates with Azure DevOps In the past I've discussed trying to automate this blog. Phase 1: KISS methodI created some scripts that would sync it locally from a local node server (using httrack) then parse the html
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 6 API AccessWe can use REST APIs to interact with Vault as well. We can use these APIS to init, unseal and even create and update roles.# init with curl $ curl --request POST --data
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 5 So far our basic containerized Vault has worked for dev, but it’s not re-deployable in its current fashion. We would never use in-memory storage for keys (wanting instead to persist them).We
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 4 Authentication and PoliciesBy default, Vault uses token authentication. One can use vault create token to create a new token that inherits the privileges of the creating user.The token can be revoked by
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 3 One can add other secrets engines. Secret engines are Vault’s extensibility model that allows a way to take data, do an action and return a result. For instance, if one would like
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 2 With Part 1, we showed how to launch a Vault instance locally with a focus on using docker and containers. Now that you have vault installed, let's check out what it can do.
vault A Vault Tutorial. Part 1 While Vault can be installed to a variety of platforms (www.vaultproject.io/downloads.html), one very straight forward approach that will work for later cloud migration is to use the published docker
blog Creating a blog. I've honestly been thinking through the many ways one could host a blog. I tried a few methods.Azure Hosted WordpressI used the standard Wordpress template with minimum settings and had the whole
