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Using PGP keys from YubiKey as SSH RSA keys on MacOS

December 5, 2016 by Paulina Budzoń

Recently, I became a fan of YubiKeys - hardware encryptions keys used for storage of PGP keys, FIDO U2F (two-factor authentication) and more. The PGP keys stored on the device can also be used as RSA keys for SSH authentication. The setup is quite simple on MacOS.

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First thoughts on Amazon Lightsail

December 2, 2016 by Paweł Biernacki

On the last AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas Amazon introduced several new products. One of them is Lightsail - a simply priced solution dedicated to VPS fans. But is it really Digital Ocean killer?

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What you need to know before using Packer's automatic spot instance biding

November 28, 2016 by Paweł Biernacki

Packer has the ability to auto-bid on spot instance prices for AWS EC2 but there are two things that you need to understand that may discourage you from using that feature.

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Best two-factor authentication (2FA) for Wordpress

November 25, 2016 by Paulina Budzoń

When securing your Wordpress installation, there’s an abundance of tasks to be performed. One of them, and a very important one, is enabling two-factor authentication for all users. Most popular way of doing that is by using a plugin that works with smartphone apps, like Google Authenticator - but from what I saw those are either quite poor or require a payment to use for more than one user. Recently, a new player has come to the scene, and they’re making quite a stir.

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Deploying API Gateway and Lambda with CloudFormation

November 21, 2016 by Paulina Budzoń

Combination of AWS API Gateway and Lambda functions is a flag example of every “serverless infrastructure”. When deploying API Gateway with CloudFormation there are two different ways you can define your API: via Swagger template or by directly defining your methods in CloudFormation template.

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