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Make Your Servers Invisible!

I'm delighted to be able to offer the first chapter of my security book, Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend, for free as a PDF.


Hardening Docker Hosts

Consider that root inside a container is the root user on your host by default. Then your container gets compromised... Hardening Docker Hosts

Updates


Admin Magazine

Security As Code: DevSecOps with Gauntlt

Ansible Tower's upstream project article: Ansible Tower AWX

Using Terraform on AWS to provide geo-DNS failover

A piece on Tuning Ansible

Automating security on AWS is discussed here: AWS Automation

Log everything: Docker Forensics

Troubleshooting Kubernetes and Docker: SuperContainers

The perils of Securing Docker Containers

Kick off with MiniKube and Kubernetes

Linux Magazine

This article about containers discusses Enterprise Container Security and Docker EE

Here's a slightly unusual piece I wrote about secret URLs in Linux Magazine: Magic URL

There's a relatively simple article: Encrypt AWS S3 backups

Manual steps to start Securing Linux on a server.

An article relating to an old troubleshooting favourite: the venerable lsof

Linux.com

I'm pleased to say that Linux.com, which is a Linux Foundation run website, is now publishing my writing. One of the Postfix pieces is here and other articles can be found by searching here.

Container Security and DevSecOps


Containers Running Containers - the launch of Docker's LinuxKit offers us food for thought.

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Docker Layering Model - There's no question that DevOps has an affinity with diffs.

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Lazy, Privileged Containers - taking the easy approach is not good news on several levels.

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Hardening Docker Hosts - Make full use of Docker Namespaces to protect root on your hosts.

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Docker Volume Security - create a temporary volume that disappears when your Container stops.

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Watch this space - more soon, click DevOps and Container links on the left-hand side until then.

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   Linux Books


If you've enjoyed reading the technical content on this site then please have a look at my Linux books which were both published in 2016 and some of my articles in Linux Magazine and Admin Magazine are available on their respective websites.



Linux Server Security: Hack and Defend by Chris Binnie           Practical Linux Topics by Chris Binnie

Postfix Howtos

I've written three articles on the admin and performance of the powerful Postfix MTA.

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Docker Security

I wrote about the heavyweight champion of containers here: Docker Security.

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Monitoring Howtos

There's comprehensive articles about the excellent Monit and the flexible nload.

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