Category: Linux

• Keeping passwords out

  

  Most development projects rely on protected, external resources, such as databases, or rest services; and many times, for the sake of simplified testing, we add those credentials to our configuration files, which, if accidentally leaks to the wrong person, can become a painful and expensive issue. In this article, I will demonstrate how to avoid […]

  alex

  October 19, 2018

  Developing, Java, Linux, Uncategorized

  AWS, credstash, development, hashicorp vault, Java, lastpass, Maven, passwords, secretsmanager, Security

• How to get Docker Vault going in no time

  

  Quick Steps Walkthrough This walk through is targeted for audiences who are new to Vault, or dev ops who just need an API to develop auto deployment scripts against. A production environment should be installed and operated by a Hashicorp Vault expert. Pull and Run Pull the docker image and run it in the foreground […]

  alex

  May 29, 2018

  Containers, Developing, Infrastructure, Java, Linux, Security, Shell, Systems

  docker, hashicorp, password, password protection, system delivery, vault

• Get that ACS 6 Community EA dev env up and running

  

  Get ACS 6 EA on your local environment and start exploring new features, functionalities, and services.

  alex

  May 25, 2018

  Alfresco, Debugging, Developing, Linux, Repository, Share, Solr, Systems

  acs, acs-6, alfresco 6, alfresco content services, docker, docker-compose

• Clean up that full ubuntu /boot drive

  

  Without any kind of monitoring or alerting enabled, you may run into your /boot drive becoming full, and resulting in errors such as:

  alex

  April 28, 2018

  Linux, Shell

  apt-get, apt-get error, aptitutde, bootdrivefull, dpkg error, full disk, fulldrive, kernel, Shell, ubuntu

• Delete a file with rsync vs rm -rf

  rsync -a —delete /empty/ /dir-to-delete/              

  alex

  August 11, 2014

  Developing, Linux, Server, Shell