What is Vault ? HashiCorp Vault is designed to help organizations manage access to secrets and transmit them safely within an organization. Secrets are defined as any form of sensitive credentials that need to be tightly controlled and monitored and can be used to unlock sensitive information. …

Introduction Managing the Kubernetes Secrets can be a challenging task. Yaml definitions of secrets are base64 encoded, so finding errors could be quite difficult. But where’s the security in that? If you’re serious about security in Kubernetes, you need a secret management tool that provides a single source of secrets, credentials…

The well-known security flaw in Docker is that it requires root access to build your Docker images with the Docker daemon. We know that we should be careful when we are using root access. …

Introduction Jenkins is a CI/CD tool with a long history and keeps evolving itself. It’s Master/Agent architecture is great for scalability to do distributed builds. There are many ways to provision Jenkins Agent, from using bare metal machines, Virtual Machines, dynamic EC2 instances, containers from Docker, or Kubernetes clusters. The integration…

I’ve recently given my CKA exam, passed with 98% and want to share my experience and throw some light into the details of the examination along with some tips. First, to start off, the Exam is 2 hours and ~20 Questions long. The passing score is 66%. …