Fun with aws-vault and 1Password

I was bouncing around on a couple of different blogs yesterday when I came across this post from the Segment blog on how they manage access to their AWS accounts. In reading through it, we use a lot of similar...

CodeBuild and UTF-8

A few months ago I was working on building out a Jekyll based website for a new project that I am working on and I ran into an issue with using CodeBuild to build the website and deploy it. Every...

AWS CLI Functions in Bash

Over the last couple of days, I have been working to setup my iPad Pro 10.5 so that I can use it as a primary system when I am on call but not near my desk. However due to the...

Building AMIs for Vault SSH

After getting Vault’s SSH backend setup in our environment, my attention was diverted to building a base AMI that all our teams can use as a starting point for deploying their applications. The purpose of this AMI was to provide...

Using Vault for SSH Connections

One of the bigger challenges I have seen in managing AWS environments is how to handle the need for developers to log into a instance. While we try to build our infrastructure with tooling that negates the need to log...