So you've got a Virtual Network set up to secure your resources, fantastic! But sometimes, your users or developers will need access to those secured resources from outside the Virtual Network. Maybe they need to make a quick update to a database, or an unexpected debug session requires a peek into your tables. That's exactly what a Bastion node is there to do.
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Databases,
best practices,
Serverless,
security,
cloud infrastructure
In this post, I'm going to highlight one of Stackery's more interesting nodes. The Virtual Network node provides a powerful mechanism for securely deploying resources inside a private network.
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security
There's been a lot of talk lately on Shift Left Testing, which is undoubtedly useful as a DevOps practice. There seems to be less talk on Shift Left Security, which surprises me. Shifting Left, is a methodology of bringing historically late-stage processes earlier in the development cycle, like shifting left on a Gantt chart in an old waterfall-style release. Shift Left Testing fits well into the mantra, "test early, test often."
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