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Securing DevOps: platform specific?

 
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Hi,
Is the book language or platform specific ?

thanks,
Paul
 
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No, the book applies to all programming languages or hosting platforms. That said, the exercises and examples use Go and AWS, because we had to pick something.

Benefits of Go is it's very easy to read for anyone doing Python, Java, C, Rust, C++ etc. It's a nice middle-ground that's not too opinionated. It's also the language I use most.

AWS is an industry standard right now, and while Azure and GCP are catching up and bringing in very interesting new features, they aren't as widespread as AWS. I also tried to address the self-hosting/datacenter case as much as possible, and worked with people who run their own infrastructure to make sure the advice are applicable, but it's hard to provide a simple lab environment that's self-hosted, whereas AWS free tier fits the bill nicely.
 
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Thank you Julien.
Sounds useful.
 
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Hi Julien Vehent

This for me like developer (Java) a crucial theme in my job, however I've never done security in all my projects. What can I find in your book that help me to give my customers a better product.

BR
 
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Hi Rafael,

Please pardon me for quoting another page, but I think this section of the book description directly answers your question:

Securing DevOps explores how the techniques of DevOps and Security should be applied together to make cloud services safer. This introductory book reviews state of the art practices used in securing web applications and their infrastructure, and teaches you techniques to integrate security directly into your product. You'll also learn the core concepts of DevOps, such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure as a Service. You'll build an example service - an invoice management API - as you learn how to implement both DevOps and Security concepts together. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to build security controls at all layers, monitor and respond to attacks on cloud services, and add security organization-wide through risk management and training.

 
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Dear Author,

Securing DevOps explores how the techniques of DevOps and Security should be applied together to make cloud services safer.  



From your quote about the topics discussed in the book, What about security mechanism that can be built around the delivery pipeline that is not
meant to be  " cloud ready applications"  for lack of word.

Thanks
Sathya


 
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Thank you so much Julien,

I hope to have a copy and start to use its utilites

BR
 
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