Terraform is a tool to build your infrastructure as code. We’ve been having a few challenges while trying to figure out how to how to manage configuration and secrets when integrating terraform with our CD pipeline.

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Github explains pretty well how to sign commits. You can make it automatic by globally setting commit.gpgsign = true by using git config --global commit.gpgsign true What if you have different signatures for your personal ID and your work ID? First, you create multiple signatures. It is important that the...

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Privacy vs Convienience is a constant battle. Personally, I prefer dialing up my privacy up to 11 to avoid being tracked. Every once in a while, social logins are important because it’s the only way to use a service. If this service is an internal company login that only uses...

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It seriously irks me when general public operating systems build in default features that send data to their servers without clearly indicating so. Both Microsoft (with Windows 10) and Apple (with Yosemite) have done so. Disabling these features doesn’t take long so here’s what you need to do. Windows 10...

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I’m a supporter of the HTTPS everywhere movement by the EFF. They advocate users use (all) websites with HTTPS for extra security. This means everyone should probably fork out a few dollars to get their own certificates. Unless you’re buying a domain at NameCheap (in which case they tend to...

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Windows, at times, denies you the right to delete a file or a folder. I’ve noticed this happening especially when you copy the contents of the folder to empty it and later try to delete it. At this moment, you’ve got to ask yourself if you’ve got the necessary permissions...

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I was helping a friend fix his hacked site when I had to disable ESET to check where his injected code was (because the website ran an img iframe hack to download a trojan on the user’s machines). I found the issue and told him what to do but had...

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So finally I got bugged with UAC enough to switch it off a few weeks back. Not all of it though. Just the module for approval from an admin and the elevation without prompting. Here is how you can do it. Click Start > Type “local” and enter (to open...

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I had to reinstall vista once and so vista copied its already existing files into Windows.old like any other decent OS does. This was of course a move to help me keep the data I already had in C drive at that time. Now that my work with it was...

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