Sep 15

Let’s Do DevOps: Terraform GitHub Action Targeting from Web Console User Input

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it! Hey all! I’m helping a team migrate their automation from AWS CodeBuild into GitHub Actions, including Terraform automation. CodeBuild is relatively clunky, but it has something…

Software Engineering

7 min read

Let’s Do DevOps: Terraform GitHub Action Targeting from Web Console User Input

Aug 30

Let’s Do DevOps: CloudFront Lambda@Edge to Add CSP HTTP Headers

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it! Hey all! S3 is great for storing files, and CloudFront is great for global content delivery caching and speed. You can set up an incredible website…

Lambda

7 min read

Aug 8

Let’s Do DevOps: EKS K8s & Python Fuzzy Staging with AWS Secrets Manager, K8s Init disk, Secrets Injection

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it! Hey all! I’ve been deep diving into K8’s CSI drivers for AWS Secrets Manager and ESO, the External Secrets Operator, an open source project that’s similar…

Kubernetes

7 min read

Let’s Do DevOps: EKS K8s & Python Fuzzy Staging with AWS Secrets Manager, K8s Init disk, Secrets…

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·Jul 15

Let’s Do DevOps: K8s, Fetching AWS Secrets Manager Secrets On Pod Launch (Securely)

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it! Hey all! A recent project of mine has been to help a team transition their Kubernetes (often stylized as k8s) secrets from a config-map to the…

Kubernetes

8 min read

Let’s Do DevOps: K8s, Fetching AWS Secrets Manager Secrets On Pod Launch (Securely)

Published in FAUN Publication

·May 10

Let’s Do DevOps: Terraform S3 Upload and CloudFront Cache Clearing Automation

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it! Hey all! I’m working on a project to write a terraform module to make lambda@edge for http header shimming (which is like, so cool) really easy…

Terraform

7 min read

May 4

CloudSecNext Presentation: Zero Trust, Building IAM with Terraform

I presented to 1.3k folks at CloudSecNext yesterday (May 3, 22) on a technical topic — using Terraform to build IAM for S3 buckets. It was super fun, and I got great feedback. If you want to check it out, it’s here: It’s based on this article: Let’s Do DevOps: Terraform S3 Policies Construction with Home Folders This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots…faun.pub

Terraform

9 min read

Published in FAUN Publication

·Apr 4

Let’s Do DevOps: Terraform S3 Policies Construction with Home Folders

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it! All code for you to build this new pattern is provided as a GitHub link at the bottom of this article ;) Hey all! Building S3…

Terraform

9 min read

Jan 12

Puzzle: S3 HTTPS Only Via Bucket Policy

Hey all, I was charged with thinking up a challenging AWS policy question around S3, and I thought, all the policies around resources are hard, especially S3. …

Iampuzzled

1 min read

Nov 22, 2021

IamPulse Spotlight: Kyler Middleton (Video Interview)

I did a video interview for IamPulse, a small and growing company out of Okta that is focused on simplifying and teaching cloud security. I…

Iampulse

1 min read

https://www.iampulse.com/blog/iam-in-the-spotlight-kyler-middleton

IamPulse Spotlight: Kyler Middleton (Video Interview)

Nov 18, 2021

Coming Out As Trans — Life, Work, and Everywhere In-between

Hey all! So if you follow me you know I’m heavily focused on making DevOps and automation simple and easy. I like to dive deep into technical topics — that’s my niche! And I love to teach it! Today’s post isn’t about a technical topic, rather it’s about my personal…

Transitions

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Coming Out As Trans — Life, Work, and Everywhere In-between