Example Website Workload – Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with Application Load Balancer and DNS (Route53), including NAT Gateway

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The Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), specifically Fargate allows you to run containers on an ad-hoc basis.  The following guide assumes you have already deployed an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), built your image, pushed it to the ECR and have obtained the Repository URI. The guide also uses local Terraform state, please see the … Read more

Example Website Workload – AWS Elastic Container Service (AWS) with ALB, Route53 and Certificate

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The below gives a simple example showing how you can deploy a containerised workload: a NGINX web server in this example which has two (or more) containers (tasks) running on AWS Fargate, presented behind a “Service” definition which is then presented to the Internet via an Application Load Balancer (ALB) where a certificate is obtained … Read more

Perl Mail::Mailer From Address, being ignored?

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While using Perl Mail::Mailer to send from an on-site application to our Microsoft 365 tenancy via SMTP, we had an oddity. We’d already setup the Microsoft 365 tenancy to have a receive connector which was autheniticating via the source address, i.e. our on-premise IP range. When testing via a test Perl script which was the … Read more

Example Site Authenticated with OKTA and Shibboleth sP (or OpenAthens and Shibboleth sP)

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The document provides an overview of how to setup and configure OKTA with a test Shibboleth sP (Service Provider) instance with a example site which is secured using OKTA. It can be used to explore how OKTA and Shibboleth sP interact with the SAML assertion exchange. The deployment is simple and provides the following: An … Read more

Exchange Online IMAP, POP3 and SMTP Credentials Flow Testing (OAuth)

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As a test we are using OpenSSL to perform some credentials testing using an Enterprise Application configured in Microsoft 365 to connect using IMAP(S) and SMTP via OpenSSL to validate how OAuth modern authentication works. Create Enterprise Application Firstly we create an Enterprise Application, we are going to be using Win64 OpenSSL v3.3.3 Light on … Read more