The Test Labs

I came across this open source tool while I was looking for different ways to test Lambda Functions.

Intro In a recent post I talked about how EKS Auto Mode is a game changer when it comes to deploying applications onto a Kubernetes cluster.

Amazon recently announced the arrival of Amazon EKS Auto Mode at re:Invent, and I personally think that it’s a game changer for their already hugely popular platform for running Kubernetes at scale.

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we’ve been working on a feature locally and have a lot of local commits that look slightly messy.

Recently I needed to redirect an apex domain in Route 53 to another apex domain.

Budgeting and cloud costs are usually pretty far down the list when you’re engineering, however when your bill unexpectedly goes up they very quickly get to the top of the list in your next meeting!

Overview Serverless and event driven computing is gaining massive traction in not just the Start Up space but in Enterprises as well, as companies are looking to take advantage of loosely coupled microservices that can be iterated on quickly and cost a fr…

The combination of AWS and Terraform for deploying infrastructure is one of the most common patterns that we see clients use.

A new feature from GitHub now allows Federation with AWS accounts using Open ID Connect, which allows you to assume an IAM role within your account to deploy services into AWS.

Long lived SSH keys have always been a very real attack vector for EC2 instances, mostly because of the need to share and manage those keys between people and teams.

This is the final part of a five part series exploring CloudGoat 2, a “vulnerable by design” AWS deployment tool from Rhino Security Labs, which is a great resource for learning about performing pen tests on AWS environments and, by proxy, defending your…

This is the fourth in a series of five posts about Rhino Security Lab’s CloudGoat 2, a “vulnerable by design” AWS deployment tool for learning how to perform pen tests on AWS environments.

This is Part Three of a five part series of articles looking at the newly released CloudGoat 2 from Rhino Security Labs, a “vulnerable by design” AWS deployment tool for helping the community learn and practice pen test methods on AWS.

In the first post of this series, we looked at the first scenario in the five “vulnerable by design” AWS environments provided by CloudGoat 2.

Intro Rhino Security Labs have released CloudGoat 2, a new vulnerable by design AWS deployment to help learn and practice the skills required to conduct a pentest on AWS.

After a few false starts over the years, I’ve decided to commit to blogging semi-regularly about some awesome technologies and my no doubt less awesome thoughts around them.

Quick Disclaimer I originally wrote this for the DevOpsGroup Blog, so feel the need for a quick disclaimer.

It was a typical Wednesday morning in East London for the beginning of May.