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 23, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

QualiMente is proud to announce https://nodramadevops.com/! The #NoDrama DevOps blog and mailing list to help you earn how to design, build, and operate systems in the Cloud one day and concept at a time. A few times a week, Stephen Kuenzli will share his thoughts on...

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,...