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DevOps on AWS Radio

Mphasis Stelligent

On DevOps on AWS Radio, we cover topics on applying DevOps principles and practices such as Continuous Delivery on the Amazon Web Services cloud. This is what we do at Stelligent for our customers. We’ll bring listeners into our roundtables and speak with engineers who’ve recently published on our blog and we’ll also be reaching out to the wider DevOps on AWS community to get their thoughts and insights.

28 - Ep. 28 Kinnaird McQuade - Policy Sentry and Cloudsplaining, Stelligent Book Club (Episode 28)
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  • 28 - Ep. 28 Kinnaird McQuade - Policy Sentry and Cloudsplaining, Stelligent Book Club (Episode 28)

    In this episode, Kinnaird McQuade, Lead Cloud Security Engineer at Salesforce, joins us to talk about his tools Cloudsplaining and Policy Sentry. Policy Sentry provides a framework for writing IAM policies to make it easier to create least privilege policies. Cloudsplaining can help find policies that may allow more access than required. Keith Monihen joins hosts Scott Alexander and Shaug Evans this episode to talk about the Stelligent book club and how it helps create a culture of learning and shared connection among employees. For full episode details, visit https://stelligent.com/blog/ Episode Notes Hosted by Scott Alexander (@salexpdx) and Shaug Evans (@ohshaughnessy) Interview Guest: Kinnaird McQuade @kmcquade3 Stelligent Guest: Keith Monihen @KeithMonihen Episode Timeline 00:00 Podcast Introduction and welcome 01:00 Kinnaird McQuade interview 28:15 Discussion of Interview with Scott, Shaug, and Keith 33:00 Recent Blog Post 36:50 Stelligent Book Club 48:00 Closing Contact Information Relevant Links CloudSplaining https://cloudsplaining.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Policy Sentry https://policy-sentry.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Kinnaird McQuade Website https://kmcquade.com/ Open Source at Salesforce https://opensource.salesforce.com/ Salesforce Careers https://www.salesforce.com/company/careers/ AWS Nuke - https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke Cloud Custodian - https://cloudcustodian.io/ Cloud Tracker - https://github.com/duo-labs/cloudtracker Blog posts: Trend Micro Smart Scan: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/22/is-my-container-image-secure-ci-cd-container-scanning-using-trend-micro-deep-security-smart-check-and-aws-codepipeline/ Amazon Inspector Introduction: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/08/introduction-to-amazon-inspector/ Implementing Amazon Inspector in Automated AMI Pipelines: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/08/implementing-amazon-inspector-in-automated-ami-pipelines/ CFN Leaprog: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/15/generating-least-privileged-iam-roles-for-cloudformation-and-service-catalog-with-cfn-leaprog/ Paul Duvall’s Forbes Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/05/01/exponential-cloud-security/ Books: The Year without Pants - https://www.amazon.com/Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com-Future-ebook/dp/B00DVJXI4M People Centric Security - https://www.amazon.com/People-Centric-Security-Transforming-Enterprise-Culture-ebook/dp/B015EZ2PT4 Accelerate - https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations-ebook/dp/B07B9F83WM Clean Code - https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship-ebook/dp/B001GSTOAM Clean Architecture - https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Software-Structure-ebook/dp/B075LRM681 Intro/Outtro music - Atmosphere by Mi77er https://soundcloud.com/mi77ermusic/atmosphere-original-mix-progressive-ambient-house

    Fri, 26 Jun 2020 - 49min
  • 27 - Ep. 27 Mutato and Open Source at Stelligent

    Hosts: Scott Alexander (@salexpdx) Shaug Evans (@ohshaughnessy) Episode Timeline 01:08 What Is happening with the podcast 03:35 Michael Neil interview 18:30 Open Source at Mphasis Stelligent 21:15 Recent Blog Post 31:45 Closing Contact Information Relevant Links Mutato open-source framework for building containerized micro-services on the AWS ecosystem  https://github.com/stelligent/mutato Mu: Open source framework in go for deployment pipelines https://github.com/stelligent/mu Building Developer Sandboxes with Attribute Based Access Control https://stelligent.com/2020/05/01/building-developer-sandboxes-on-aws-with-attribute-based-access-control-abac/ IAM Complexity blog post https://stelligent.com/2020/03/27/thought-experiment-proposed-complexity-metric-for-iam-policy-documents/ Blog posts about remote work https://stelligent.com/category/remote-work/ Podcast Details: What Is happening with the podcast - The podcast has new hosts and a tweaked format to make it more useful to our listener. The interview is now at the front of the podcast and the news and discussion is the second half of the recording. Michael Neil interview - Stelligent’s newest open source project Mutato (pronounced muh-tah-toe) joins the podcast to talk about the project. It is an open-source framework for building containerized micro-services on the AWS ecosystem. The project handles many of the details for new AWS users to get containers deployed to ECS and EKS quicker. Open Source at Mphasis Stelligent - In addition to our projects, we also publish source code that supports our blog posts. One recent blog post is Eric Kascic’s “Thought experiment - Complexity metrics for IAM Policy documents”. In addition to the blog post, he wrote code that implements his idea and the repository is public for anyone to see. Recent Blog Post - Several other recent blog posts are discussed including the recent series of articles about working remotely, Scott Nixon’s Building developer sandboxes with Attribute Based Access Control is discussed for teams that may have to share an AWS account and for the opening look into identification documents and their history. Closing Contact Information - On Twitter, You can find Shaug Evans @ohshaughnessy and Scott Alexander @salexpdx, For more information about Mphasis Stelligent, visit https://stelligent.com Intro/Outtro music Atmosphere by Mi77er https://soundcloud.com/mi77ermusic/atmosphere-original-mix-progressive-ambient-house

    Tue, 12 May 2020 - 32min
  • 26 - Ep. 26 The Do's and Dont's of Containers with Michael Wittig

    In this episode, we chat with Michael Wittig an AWS Community Hero prior to re:Invent 2019 with some of our hopes and expectations of the conference, and we also dive into a number of topics including Michael's most recent book. In this episode, Paul Duvall and Michael Wittig will give you an overview of the Do's and Don'ts of Containers on AWS, the open source tool cfn-modules, de-mything the Serverless hype, and also covers cost related issues and the recent Savings Plans released in order to reduce your bill. To learn more about Stelligent, visit www.stelligent.com.

    Fri, 06 Dec 2019 - 33min