Taylor Smith, Author at Bridgecrew

5 common Kubernetes misconfigs and how to fix them

Taylor Smith October 14, 2021October 15, 2021

Kubernetes is a powerful tool with enough settings to deploy a performant, scalable, and reliable…

It’s not all bad! Using cloud drift for teachable moments

Taylor Smith October 4, 2021October 10, 2021

Drift between running cloud resources and their associated infrastructure as code (IaC) will inevitably happen. Learn how to use drift as a learning opportunity and provide training on how to prevent it in the future.

Infrastructure as code

Tutorial: Incorporate IaC Security in your CI/CD pipeline with Bridgecrew, Jenkins, and GitHub

Taylor Smith September 27, 2021September 24, 2021

Learn how to add security into your Jenkins CI/CD to ensure only secure IaC code is committed to a repository and deployed.

Takeaways from the 2021 State of DevOps Report from Puppet

Taylor Smith September 8, 2021September 7, 2021

Puppet has just released the 10 year anniversary version of their annual State of DevOps Report. Important findings include the role of automation, cultural buy-in, and more.

DevSecOps

5 tips for securely adopting infrastructure as code

Taylor Smith August 19, 2021August 18, 2021

Get our top tips for leveraging infrastructure as code (IaC) for efficient cloud management and a secure cloud environment.

Infrastructure as code

7 ways to optimize your VCS for DevSecOps

Taylor Smith August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

Follow these seven best practices to optimize your version control system (VCS) and bring security and automation for more robust DevSecOps.

DevSecOps

Prioritize new misconfigurations with Checkov’s baseline feature

Taylor Smith July 27, 2021July 30, 2021

Prioritize only new infrastructure as code misconfigurations with open-source tool Checkov's baseline feature.

Best practices for AWS tagging with Yor

Taylor Smith July 19, 2021July 26, 2021

Open source tool Yor automatically add consistent, helpful tags to infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates in AWS and other frameworks.

How Coalfire utilizes automation to secure cloud architecture and infrastructure as code

Taylor Smith June 17, 2021June 22, 2021

Coalfire worked with Bridgecrew to embed infrastructure as code (IaC) security scanning for Terraform and CloudFormation templates into their CI/CD pipelines.