Overview Many modern applications support OpenID Connect natively. Plenty of others do not. You may have an application that: In that situation, Apache can act as the authentication layer in front of the application. The architecture looks like: Apache and mod_auth_mellon act … [Read more...] about Apache mod_auth_mellon: Configure SAML SSO & Docker
Docker log file size
The purpose of this article is to explore the reasons why the docker log file size will increase and could potentially fill up your disk space in a short amount of time. If you have a host machine running Docker with log monitoring and/or log rotation in place, you may still fill up your disk space … [Read more...] about Docker log file size
SSH Key Generation
The ssh-keygen utility is used for ssh key generation. This post will walk you through how to generate a new ssh key, configure its use, and use it for authentication against the hosts or systems you need to authenticate to. At the end we will walk through how to test ssh key and password … [Read more...] about SSH Key Generation
Docker container keeps restarting
The purpose of this article is to detail how to recover from a docker container that keeps restarting. So, you have built a new docker container and are attempting to run it. The container builds just fine, but you notice that on startup it isn't available. You decide to run the following command … [Read more...] about Docker container keeps restarting
How to Install an SSL Certificate on Tomcat
Web server administrators, system administrators, and web developers may all play a role in installing an SSL Certificate on a Tomcat web server. These instructions will attempt to provide guidance for those. I. Create a CSR with OpenSSL To create a CSR with openssl, run the following … [Read more...] about How to Install an SSL Certificate on Tomcat
Python Database Connector
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to use a Python Database Connector to both read and write data to an Oracle database. The concept is the same for any Database Management System (DBMS) you are using, but the drivers will be different. This article will go over the steps required to … [Read more...] about Python Database Connector
How to run a Java process in Docker
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to run a Java process in Docker. Java can be developed in congruence with a number of frameworks, but that isn't necessary in every case. Out of the box Java supports the execution of a scheduled task with just a packaged jar (Java archive) file. To … [Read more...] about How to run a Java process in Docker
Vault PKI – How to run a CA with Hashicorp Vault
This article will demonstrate how to run a CA (Certification Authority) with Hashicorp Vault using the vault pki secrets engine. The examples provided will be in the form of a development environment using Docker. Before continuing it may be helpful to read our previous article on running vault in … [Read more...] about Vault PKI – How to run a CA with Hashicorp Vault