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CIS L1 and L2 Server Security for Ubuntu

Lately, I’ve been tasked with ensuring server security compliance with CIS Security Standards for our EC2 instances. This is a major focus for a technology company promoting security compliance in the healthcare industry. We’ve got a lot of servers running a lot of different things. Obviously, manually updating servers to comply with the standard isn’t […]

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GitLab Delete Bulk Issues

At the time of this writing (June 20, 2019), GitLab doesn’t have a feature to bulk delete issues. This is a real challenge for me right now. I’ve got builds auto-creating issues that have been ignored for months. I now have thousands of issues to remove. Save me  your lectures about maintenance and architecture. Let’s […]

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Linux Deployment Scripts

A common issue in web development is getting new code to production environments. Nobody wants their site down for long, and depending on who you are a long time could be seconds or less. If you’re production environment is running a versioned instance of your code, updating that environment is as simple as using your […]