There is no such thing as a DevOps engineer

And why we rebranded our company to support this provocation **Disclaimer: **this part-promotional post discussing a problem almost all tech companies experience, most are not even aware of. It’s intended to tell our company’s story; why we do what we do, and why we chose a new path to walk in...

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Why your startup has to do DevOps from day one

Kill waste. Focus. Innovate. Stay Lean. Be a pro. You can’t afford to do anything but win The success rate of startups in 2017 was 2.5%. According to last year’s statistics, 75% of US venture-backed startups fail. “Success” being translated to reaching the point of a successful sale. Obviously,...

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Managing application secrets on AWS with SSM and Chamber

The better alternative for Vault and AWS Secret Manager Where do you store your application secrets? That’s the first question I ask many of our clients at ProdOps. I usually get one of two answers, either they thought I was talking about a user password manager like 1Password or LastPass, or ...

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Security for dummies: Protecting application secrets made easy

Using Vault to secure, encrypt and manage secrets Last year, I’ve found my client’s AWS account access and secret keys pushed to git, and visible in 23 different locations in the application’s codebase. After requesting an immediate removal, I used the awesome GitLeaks tool to scan the project...

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