To understand why it's helpful to import external keys into Vault, it's important to understand
TL;DR: Using the
cafield to specify custom CAs (certificate authorities) in Node.js is a footgun. It replaces (rather than appends to) the root trust store which can lead to unintended consequences. I've seen this behavior cause outages in production when a third party server does a routine …
This is a story of a brief outage caused by a slightly unintuitive API1 that has some very sharp corners for the uninitiated. The outage, though brief, was of the "wake up at 4am" variety so the lesson was especially salient.
This is not a post trying to tear …
The "obvious" way to write a custom GitHub Action is using Node.js, however it's not the only way. As it turns out, a GitHub Action really just communicates with the "orchestrator" via environment variables (as inputs) and STDOUT (to produce custom outputs).
When defining an action, there are …
This is a tiny little note that can help with debugging in some situations.
We'll use netcat (nc) to view the raw data sent to and returned from
an HTTP server1.
We'll run a dummy listener via nc and directly inspect the body of an
HTTP …