Introduction to Azure Security

DevOps Security or DevSecOps is a set of practices and tools that bring together software development (Dev), IT operations (Ops), and security (Sec) to increase an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services securely. DevOps presents new risks that create security challenges that cannot typically be addressed by conventional security management solutions and practices. One of the prominent security challenges in DevOps environments is privileged access management. DevOps processes require human and machine privileged credentials which are quite powerful and highly susceptible to
cyber-attacks. So strong security practices should be inserted throughout the application lifecycle to reduce vulnerabilities, improve security posture and mitigate risk.

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How To Setup An Agent On Azure Devops

Introduction

To set up a self-hosted agent in Azure DevOps, follow these steps: First, generate a Personal Access Token (PAT). Next, go to Organization Settings to create an agent pool. Next, download the appropriate agent package for your operating system (whether it’s Windows or Linux). Then, run the `config.cmd` or `./config.sh` command to register the agent. Be sure to install the agent in a directory that doesn’t contain spaces, such as `C:\agents`.

Azure DevOps is an integrated service provided by Azure. In recent times, it is observed that Azure DevOps is increasing its penetration into the DevOps community. Being a SaaS service, it doesn’t come with a pre-configured host or better say, an agent to execute its commands. That’s why whenever we want to use our Azure DevOps Pipeline we need to have an agent configured in our Agent Pool. In this blog, we will learn how to configure an agent and later on how to create a service for our host. Continue reading “How To Setup An Agent On Azure Devops”

A Detailed Guide to Key Metrics of MongoDB Monitoring

In the current era, organizations demand high-quality working data, and management systems that can scale, deploy quickly, robustly, are highly available, and highly secure for any unfortunate incidents. Traditionally, applications used relational databases as the primary data stores but in today’s need for data-driven applications, developers lean towards alternative databases like NoSQL(Not Only Structured Query Language).

NoSQL databases enable speed, flexibility, and scalability in this era of growing development in the cloud. Moreover, NoSQL databases also support JSON-like documents which are commonly used formats to share data in modern web applications.

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How to Setup Consul through the OSM Ansible Role

Are you searching for service discovery or a service mesh tool for a distributed environment?

Did you find any with easy installation? Not yet!! Think fast….It’s just a piece of cake.YES! NO! Calm down because I got it !!!!

A few days back we got a requirement where we had to setup multiple services on multiple servers and in a cluster mode….So now the question arises how will the services be auto discovered? how will we get to know the health check of the service? and above all how to restrict users on different services. After a lot of research, I came across a tool named as consul. But now another stumbling block arises HOW TO SETUP IT? 

Your answer might be just go ahead and download the binary on every server, if that’s what you’re thinking…then STOP! Because doing it manually on plenty of servers is time-consuming and also not an efficient way. So, I thought of using a configuration management tool that is none other than ansible. Then there were roles that were already present in the market but some have the hard coded encryption key, some were not generating the bootstrap token and also they were not easy to understand. None of the roles fulfilled the requirement. 

So, I thought of creating an ansible role with features like, enabling ACL and generating a bootstrap token, and an encryption key with easy-to-understand language. 

In this blog, I have explained the OT-OSM consul ansible role. 

Without any delay let’s get started!!!

Now you might be thinking what is consul?

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