by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 29, 2019 | DevOps, Strategy
Recently, the Hertz car rental company sued Accenture for $32M in damages. The suit (pdf) alleges breach of contract in Accenture’s agreement to build and deliver a new website. This new site was supposed to: support the Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands,... by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 26, 2019 | Secrets, Security
I synthesized and expanded what I’ve been sharing about delivering secrets to applications into a 1 hour talk and presented it at the Phoenix DevOps meetup on Wednesday. This talk covers (Recording (YouTube), Slides (Google)): the fundamental challenges of... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 19, 2019 | DevOps
‘A Key in Hand’ by CMDR Shane, Unsplash Controlling access to secrets within Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) systems is very important. CI/CD those systems often use credentials with highly-privileged access to create and publish business... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 22, 2019 | Cloud, DevOps
‘Ante Up’ by Keenan Constance, Unsplash If a service can’t be provisioned and managed via an API, it’s not a Cloud service. Avg Reading Time: 90s Some vendors market their hosted offerings as ‘Cloud services’ without APIs, but this... by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 6, 2019 | DevOps
Loading by Elevate This deep-dive on Continuous Integration started with saying that a project’s CI process should build the canonical release artifacts for a project or product. These release artifacts should archive the application that was built along along... 