Alan Thatcher

vault

Secret Security Turtles

A quick look at one method to allow secure access to secrets in HashiCorp Vault by a Chef Client

Chef

Multi-Node Installs with Chef

Sometimes multiple nodes need to be coordinated with Chef cookbooks. Here is how I've had some success doing that.

Chef

lazy { is good }

I recently had a chance to learn more about the lazy evaluation method for Chef recipes. Here is what I learned

Chef

HashiCorp Vault and Chef Testing Groundwork

A fairly quick, repeatable, and customizable groundwork for testing HashiCorp Vault and Chef

Chef

Integrating Chef and HashiCorp Vault

Some initial thoughts and patterns for integrating Chef with basic secrets storage in HashiCorp Vault

vault

Vault AppRole Authentication

Exploring HashiCorp Vault's AppRole authentication

Fun and Profit with Vault Part 2

Last time with Vault, I downloaded the binary, built a configuration file, initialized and unsealed the vault, and created a secret. That's all fun, but it's time to make the project a little more stable. In defense of non-containerized install In the first installment,

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Fun and Profit With Vault Part 3

Third installment of getting Vault up and running on my laptop.

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Fun And Profit With Vault

I have recently started looking into Hashicorp Vault as a way to expand my kowledge of things for fun and profit. There is much and more about Vault on the interwebs, but here is my log of discovery. A blog is just a fancy

Chef

Coding a Chef cookbook for multiple platforms

Some thoughts on how to create cookbooks for two or more operating systems

configuration management

AIX configuration management with ... Something

Some thoughts on adopting configuration management for AIX