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Microservices, Security, Software Development

Routing sensitive logs to Syslog server with Log4j2 Appender

This blog post covers a recent use case we worked on, where we separated sensitive logs into a separate destination storage. We recently worked on a use case where the system generated around 10,000 logs per second. Some logs contained…

Hrithik Sawant

Security

Automate RDS Secret management using AWS Secret Manager

A brief comparison of the different ways of storing RDS credentials, followed by a showcase of how AWS Secrets Manager stores RDS credentials and how this can be automated using Terraform.

Siddharth Shashikar

Security

Centralized VPN

When you work with a complex system that involves multiple products hosted on different clouds and data centers, each having their own VPNs, which are in turn shared amongst users, how do you declutter and secure the VPN traffic? We used a Pritunl cluster to centralise all VPN traffic.

Sagar Rakshe

Security

Iptables, blast from the past!

As a firewall utility, IPtables has been around for more than 2 decades, but it isn’t exactly obsolete. While there are many alternatives to it today, every now and then, you deal with networks implementing IPtables. Docker, k8s, OpenStack still manage rules using IPtables. So if you are an SRE or a DevOps practitioner, it’s useful to learn IPtables and practice with some real world use cases

Jaideep Khandelwal