As a consultant, I work with a lot of clusters that all have varying authentication mechanisms and RBAC. For me, being able to rapidly understand where I am and what I can do help me immensely when working across clusters. In today's post, I'm going to be listing some of my favorite tools that make my day-to-day easier.

The dynamic nature of the cloud has helped companies rapidly scale services and platforms to support the wave of employees now working from home due to shelter-in-place ordinances. As organizations continue to do their part to flatten the curve, IT leaders who have been the most successful managing this change are being mindful of how an increase in cloud utilization might affect costs and risk profiles.

I missed a static generated site, but also loved being able to simply post from a nice UI.

A quick introduction to Harbor, an advanced container and helm chart registry with advanced security features.

Keycloak is an awesome SSO Identity Provider, let's see how we can use it to authenticate to Slack.

System administrators on a large scale blindly accept self signed certificates without verifying trust. Fix that by creating your own CA and learning how they work.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an awesome and quick way to get access to a lot of computational power; it is known for providing near-instant access to large amounts of computational resources. Between the API and the web interface, you can quickly scale your application with demand.