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9 Types of Digital Security Risks

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Having an overall understanding of the existing digital security risk can help to design a decisive risk mitigation plan.  Both small and large businesses are exposed to similar types of digital risk, which can cause serious damage to businesses unless handled carefully.  The list below explains the nine types of digital risks you need to stay alert of. 1. Data risk- as you … [Read more...] about 9 Types of Digital Security Risks

5 Steps to Auto-Create Helm  Charts and upload to S3 Using Jenkins

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After packaging the helm charts, you need to store it in a repository so that it can be easily deployed using helm in the Kubernetes or Minikube. This post aims to show you how to set up the AWS S3 bucket as a Helm chart repository. Using the steps below you will be able to setup Helm S3 repo for both Minikube and KOPs created cluster hosted in AWS.  Scenario:  we will create … [Read more...] about 5 Steps to Auto-Create Helm  Charts and upload to S3 Using Jenkins

3 Steps to Install Kubectl, Helm 3 and S3 Plugin in Ubuntu to Store Charts in S3 Bucket

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This post aims to show you how to install Kubectl, Helm 3 and S3 plugin so that you can easily store the chart in a S3 bucket form your Ubuntu machine. Though I always use an automated approach to create and store the helm chart, I had to create a helm chart in Ubuntu in order to identify and Helm S3 plugin compatibility issue. 1. Install kubectl To install kubectl in … [Read more...] about 3 Steps to Install Kubectl, Helm 3 and S3 Plugin in Ubuntu to Store Charts in S3 Bucket

How to Run MySQL Database Anonymize Script from Linux Bash Shell

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How to run mysql annoymise scripot from bash shell. To anonymize the production database for using in the test environment,  you can create a simple script that can run from the Linux Bash shell with a single command. At first download a sample database: # wget https://github.com/datacharmer/test_db/archive/master.zip Next, unzip the file #  unzip master.zip … [Read more...] about How to Run MySQL Database Anonymize Script from Linux Bash Shell

How to Mount Amazon EFS in EC2-CentOS Instance

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With Amazon EFS(elastic file system)mounted in the EC2, you can signifincalty reudce cost of storge becaues you pay only for the storgrage used by your applications/data. EFS supports NFS In the AWS console, search for EFS and then create a volume. When you attahce a security group in the EFS, make sure it allows traffc on port 22 from the EC2 instance. Also, take note of the … [Read more...] about How to Mount Amazon EFS in EC2-CentOS Instance

How to Schedule AWS EC2 Start and stop time using Lambda and Cloudwatch

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To save your AWS cloud  operational cost, you can schedule EC2 instanes' start and stop time using Lambda function.  When you define a lamda function, you need to setup a trigger, which specifies the event that can invoke the lambda fucntions. In this post, we will use the a specific UTC time as a trigger .  For example, you want to start EC2 instances at  06:30 UTC and want to … [Read more...] about How to Schedule AWS EC2 Start and stop time using Lambda and Cloudwatch

How to Setup AWS CloudFront for Externally Registered Domain Name

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If you do not want to transfer your domain to Amazon DNS(Route 53) and want to use AWS CloudFront to deliver your content, you can use the instructions below to set up your content delivery network. Scenario 1: you are using an external DNS for CloudFront and do not want to create a hosted zone in  Amazon route 53. For example, your domain is registered with Namecheap and you … [Read more...] about How to Setup AWS CloudFront for Externally Registered Domain Name