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Load testing with Locust
The Locust load test tool assesses the resiliency of your infrastructure to help you determine whether it can withstand a flood of requests.
Remote maintenance and automation with RPort
Firewalls and network address translation often stand in the way of access to remote systems, but the free RPort software works around these obstacles and supports remote maintenance through a tunnel locally, in the cloud, and from your home office.
Filter DNS queries with Blocky
The Domain Name System is repeatedly the target of or is leveraged for attacks on corporate infrastructures; however, it also lets you protect corporate networks against attacks and malware. The Blocky DNS server sets up quickly to secure DNS queries and DNS filtering for corporate networks.
Exploiting, detecting, and correcting IAM security misconfigurations
Three IAM security misconfiguration scenarios are rather common: allowing the creation of a new policy version, the modification of a role trust policy, and the creation of EC2 instances with role passing. We look at ways to avoid and detect IAM security holes.
Tools for automation in the cloud
Automation in the cloud does not require expensive new acquisitions when tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef are already in use locally and can contribute to the automatic management and orchestration of cloud workloads.
Configuring complex environments
YAML is often the language of choice when configuring complex environments. We help you get started with YAML and the YAML parser yq.
Convert Linux shell commands into PowerShell cmdlets
Convert Linux shell commands into PowerShell cmdlets and modules and run them in a PowerShell environment.
Lithnet Password Protection for Active Directory
Lithnet Password Protection for Active Directory provides flexible rules beyond that possible with group policies alone and prevents the use of previously compromised passwords.
Goodbye cloud VMs, hello laptop VMs
Multipass lets you launch and run Ubuntu virtual machines, use cloud-init to configure the VMs, and prototype cloud launches locally in minutes.
Kubernetes for small and medium-sized enterprises
We look at the benefits of Kubernetes outside of large corporate environments.
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