The ramblings of a computer geek
Need a HTTP server quickly on your local machine to test something, using Python (3) you can do the following: Now your web server is available at localhost (firewall permitting). Anything within the working directory you run the command is made web accessible.
The document provides a simple guide to how to install and use the Microsoft Exchange Online PowerShell modules to interact with Microsoft 365 infrastructure for the purposes of administering the Microsoft 365 infrastructure and applications; i.e. how to setup your Developer Machine. You may be able to install modules without administrative rights by adding the … Read more
The document provides a simple guide to how to install and use the Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Exchange Online PowerShell modules to interact with Microsoft 365 infrastructure for the purposes of administering the Microsoft 365 infrastructure and applications; i.e. how to setup your Developer Machine. You may be able to install modules without administrative rights … Read more
The PowerShell profile, much like the profile within a Linux Shell session allows you to add/change things about the session when it starts. Find Profile Location By default your profile is stored within your user’s home directory on your Windows workstation, you can find where it is or where it might be by running: Create … Read more
A simple example using AWS CloudFormation that creates an IAM User and then stores the user’s AccessKey and SecretKey within AWS Secrets Manager to get a hold of the value (which otherwise only exists once at creation). Assuming your user account has access to AWS Secrets Manager, you’ll then find it available here: Click “Retrieve … Read more
A plugin has been developed to allow the monitoring of the status of VPN Tunnels on the Palo Alto Firewall. The script uses the Palo Alto Firewall API to access the relevant part of the API “tree” to find the status of the VPN Tunnel(s). You can find the current version of the plugin here: … Read more
When using with Terraform with Keeper Secrets Manager (KSM) a provider is needed to be configured, the Keeper documentation details how this can be configured. Keeper: Terraform Provider Documentation. However, a short version can be found below. https://docs.keeper.io/en/keeperpam/secrets-manager/integrations/terraform You need to have already created a Keeper Secrets Manager (KSM) profile which you can use for authentication, this … Read more
Here’s a quick example of how you can use Terraform’s cidrsubnet function to streamline your use of IP Subnets and calculate a number of different subnets from a single CIDR range (or supernet). https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/functions/cidrsubnet Explaination The cidrsubnet function can be a bit weird when first looking at it. But we’re going to have an example … Read more
Firstly, a disclaimer. Although you can store values, specifically secrets (e.g. passwords) within Environment Variables so that you are not storing them in your Terraform template code there are better ways, for example by use of a formal Secrets Management solution. However, this article will show you how you can use Environment Variables to “safely” … Read more
We use IaC (Infrastructure as Code) for the deployment and management of all cloud (AWS) workloads to ensure we can manage and update infrastructure and applications that are deployed in the cloud rapidily and on an ongoing basis, while maintaining flexibility, security and availability. However issues may occur when changes are made using automated processes, … Read more