Infrastructure as Code is getting all attention it deserves and everyone is trying to find their way to the `Completely automated Infrastructure Provisioning & Management` While there are a lot of tools available now in the market starting from Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Salt Stack There are some differences[...]
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Not all the tasks we run in our playbook are short and sweet. Some of them would take a long time but we cannot afford to sit tight and watch the screen. We got better things to do. Some of the long-running tasks could be Downloading a Big File from[...]
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Whether it is On-Prem (or) Cloud-hosted, A Typical Non-Containerized Enterprise infrastructure would have ample of Virtual Machines aka Servers [ Linux ] Let us suppose that you work for the DevOps team of a Big Organization where you manage 100+ ec2 instances. You have a new hire in your team[...]
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Overview Probably one of the first tasks to do while setting up the production environment is to mask the Apache (or) IHS (IBM HTTP Server) version and Server Banner in a header. This is not critical but considered low risk as information leakage vulnerability and must do for PCI DSS[...]
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What is Apache Clickjacking Attack and How to Fix Clickjacking is a well-known web application vulnerabilities. For example, it was used as an attack on Twitter. To defence Clickjacking attack on your Apache HTTPD web server, you can use X-FRAME-OPTIONS to avoid your website being hacked from Clickjacking. The X-Frame-Options in HTTP response header can[...]
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Windows Service management through the command line is really a good approach when you want to manage plenty of services and perform day to day actions like stop, start and restart I think you would agree, If I say GUI is fun for entry-level but when it comes to performing the[...]
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If you are here, Then you might have had a similar requirement I had, which is to find a specific file across multiple directories and to grep or Search for a string present in that file. ( more like what we do with xargs in Linux) I am a Linux[...]
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Ansible shell module is designed to execute Shell commands against the target Unix based hosts. Unlike the Ansible command module, Ansible Shell would accept any highly complexed commands with pipes, redirection etc and you can also execute Shell scripts using Ansible Shell module. The Advantage of Ansible Shell module[...]
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Introduction Ansible works seamlessly with Git and you might have had a requirement to download your source code or software directly from the Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab etc. In this post, we are going to explore various tits and bits of Ansible Git module and how to use it in real-time[...]
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Introduction Like Linux, Windows does have a netstat command and it can come handy when you are in need of network-related monitoring and troubleshooting. Consider you have any of the following requirement How to find who or which process owns the port in Windows Server To see how many HTTP/DB[...]
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