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Azure VM Utilising Azure Key Vault for SSH Key Authentication

In this article we will demonstrate how we can leverage Azure Key Vault for managing SSH keys to access our Azure Virtual Machines. It is always a challenge as to how we manage secure information especially private keys,...

Automated Deployment – Azure VM Scale Sets with Updates

In this article we will cover off Azure VM Scale Sets (VMSS) and how we can leverage them to automatically deploy/scale our web applications. To make this more usable to deploy our custom applications, we will leverage A...

Azure – Ansible Deploy Kubernetes Cluster using Resource Group Templates

In this article we will show the process to deploy a simple Kubernetes cluster on Azure using Kubespray and Azure Resource Group Templates. All commands will be running using Azure CLI via the Azure Cloud Shell. For a pr...

AWS Contact Form Serverless Lambda Function API Gateway Front End via CLI

In this post we will demonstrate how we can create a simple Contact form on Amazon S3 by deploying an Amazon Serverless Function using AWS Lambda fronted by Amazon API Gateway that will use Amazon SES (Simple Email Servi...

AWS Automated Vulnerability Assessment – AWS

AWS Automated Vulnerability Assessment Using Nikto – Fargate+ECS Container Cluster using Lambda+API Gateway+DynamoDB The task of maintaining an up to date and secure web platform can be challenging. Vulnerabilit...

Tips to make your workforce a security front line

Download E-book Cyber security is something that is constantly on our mind here at Unit. This is because, according to Bloomberg, cyber security related issues costs companies around $400 Billion a year on average. One o...

5 creative ways to address gaps in IT resources and talent

In a recent Indeed survey of more than 1,000 hiring managers and recruiters, more than half (53 percent) of respondents have hired tech talent despite candidates not meeting the job description requirements. That may be ...

Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Origin on Azure in minutes!

Out of the box, OpenShift will give you a production ready solution for deploying containers at scale and tooling to easily integrate your CI/CD pipelines.  This article aims to demonstrate a quick to deploy Open...

The top 13 benefits of proactive managed services vs reactive break-fix

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) have to juggle many priorities and daily demands. Acquiring and retaining customers. Avoiding inefficiency. Delivering excellent customer service. Managing costs. Hiring employees....

Azure – Running Ansible Playbooks using Azure Cloud Shell

This article is an extension to our previous primer on using Azure Cloud Shell – Azure CLI Primer – Azure Cloud Shell This article aims to unlock the power of Ansible within Azure Cloud Shell. In the previous artic...