by Steven Sutton | March 11, 2019 | Cloud, InfraAsCode, security, testing | 0 Comments

The AWS IAM Simulator is a tool that enables you to test the effects of IAM access control policies. This tool helps when you find yourself manually performing actions to test a policy. The tool can simulate actions for any IAM entity or resource and for unique sets...

by Stephen Kuenzli | January 1, 2019 | Cloud, security | 0 Comments

Are you overwhelmed by the avalanche of announcements that may or may not improve the security, reliability, and cost of your AWS Cloud deployments? Resolve to do less yourself by having AWS do more. In this post, we'll highlight 5 of the biggest announcements from...

by Steven Sutton | October 25, 2018 | Cloud, DevOps, intermediate, security, Skill | 0 Comments

This article will show you how to assume a role and perform aws-cli commands in one account after authenticating via a user in a trusted account (e.g. using the Identity Account pattern). This article is the third and final in a series of instructional posts regarding...

by Steven Sutton | October 25, 2018 | Cloud, DevOps, introductory, security, Skill | 0 Comments

This how-to will guide you through the configuration of IAM roles in aws-vault and assuming those roles so that you can execute AWS commands as that role while protecting your credentials. This article is the second in a series on using aws-vault to manage your AWS...

by Steven Sutton | October 22, 2018 | Cloud, DevOps, introductory, security, Skill | 0 Comments

This article kicks off a series of posts describing how to use aws-vault, a third party tool that helps engineers store and use AWS credentials securely in their local development and operational environments. The series will cover: installing aws-vault and using it...

by Matt Hickie | February 4, 2018 | Cloud, DevOps, intermediate, security | 0 Comments

You use AWS services.  You use them for a company or for your personal projects.  In all this excitement to use the AWS cloud you might have: allowed all developers to access many resources in your AWS account given yourself permanent keys and full admin access on...

by Stephen Kuenzli | October 20, 2017 | Cloud, containers, DevOps, InfraAsCode | 0 Comments

QualiMente is proud to support the inaugural DevOpsDays Phoenix on Tuesday, October 24 with a speaker and a silver sponsorship! What is DevOpsDays? DevOpsDays is a conference for not only Developers and Systems/Operations Engineers, but everyone involved in creating...

by Stephen Kuenzli | March 2, 2017 | introductory, quality, testing | 0 Comments

Why is delivering software so hard? Delivering software to customers on-time and with the expected quality is a big challenge.  The balance of scope, time, and resources is difficult to maintain for many teams. Unfortunately, many teams do not understand the main risk...

by Stephen Kuenzli | January 17, 2017 | containers, introductory | 0 Comments

Interested in simple ways to start using Docker from the bottoms-up?  This article presents 4 patterns for using Docker as an individual or small team from dev through production.  These patterns address difficulty: trying new tools and approaches configuring...

by Stephen Kuenzli | December 30, 2016 | containers, intermediate, lean | 0 Comments

Introduction Organizations adopting containerized application delivery platforms commonly wonder if containerization is right for their legacy applications, asking: “Can we containerize our legacy applications? What issues should we expect?” In short... "Yes,...