Are Bastion Hosts Still Relevant with Zero-Trust Access?
A senior engineer told me that bastion hosts have been insecure and outdated for the past decade. With modern zero-trust approaches, is the traditional bastion or jump host…
infrastructure security
What should we prioritize before launching a video platform in one week?
We're preparing to launch a video-based platform with payments and several other features, but we only have about a week left. The team has two backend developers and…
One Week Before Launch: What Should We Prioritize in Our Deployment and Infrastructure?
We're preparing to launch a video-based platform with payments and several other features, but we only have about a week left. Our team consists of two backend developers…
What’s the safest way to retire unused service accounts and tokens?
I recently reviewed some old side projects and found more abandoned machine credentials than expected: CI personal access tokens, deploy tokens for hosts I no longer use, and…
How are teams preventing untested AI-generated infrastructure code from reaching staging?
Is anyone else dealing with junior developers or product managers blindly pushing AI-generated configuration into cloud staging without checking dependencies or behavior? Our main development cluster locked up…
How Can a Linux Support Engineer Build the Skills to Deploy Services Reliably in Production?
I've worked in Linux application support for about 800 days, mostly monitoring disk usage, checking application logs, and supporting services running on Rocky Linux and Red Hat systems.…
How can I build stronger IT infrastructure and sysadmin best practices?
I recently moved into IT and now work as the sole sysadmin for a small company. I manage Microsoft 365, macOS devices, three locations with small Proxmox clusters…
How should a Kubernetes penetration test be scoped when workloads use dynamic IPs?
I'm planning a penetration test for a Kubernetes environment and want to define the scope realistically. Since pods and services may receive changing IP addresses, should the assessment…