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Product review of cloudsploit

Hello People! This article is to share my understanding about cloudsploit and the service they provide to the people. What they do? CloudSploit is a service which analysis your AWS/Azure account for security holes/risks. With people moving to serverless technologies, Azure and AWS are gaining popularity these days at higher rate. Also alot of developers/dev-ops engineers tend to overlook some of the security considerations while setting up services in cloud. CloudSploit is here to address such problems for you! How do they do it? CloudSploit asks you for a access key with read only permissions to your cloud resources. They have a set of plugins, which run using this access key. Each plugin is a javascript function which uses some node cloud SDKs to analyse the services in cloud. Result of what they do When you run CloudSploit, as a final output you get to see different plugins and their test results. The plugins also have recommended actions section which tell...

Designing a Simple HTML website with materialize

Hello guys, I am a beginner in Web Development. So it all started with the use of html tags and how the browser interprets and translates this markup for us. I started up with building a small website. Usually when we talk about content websites, the more appealing and user friendly the website is, the more you attract the customers. So i started up browsing for some good UI libraries. In my context, i had assumed that materials UI is only supported by angular. But to my surprise, it was not. Here are the 3 options i could find for materials implementation in simple content websites. materializecss bootstrap-material-design getmdl.io My next worry was, i had to reload the damn thing again and again every time i made some changes either in javascript or html. One of the options that i came accoss is to make use of gulp tasks to automate this whole procedure. This procedure for me involved the following things: Auto reload of browser window on some changes in code. Mi...

Attaching SSL certificate to AWS Elastic BeanStalk's single instance environment

Attaching SSL certificate to AWS Elastic BeanStalk's single instance environment Step 1: Create a ssl certificate Go to  this  link to create a free ssl certificate Create folders  .well-known  >  acme-challenge  and put the file which you got while creating a ssl above eg. 2elaFuIeUlvdNUGhnGa3A4NLSPYM21AyK7uHHZNc_s0 The website will need to confirm that you are the legitimate user of the domain for which you are claiming the ssl certificate. To verify, you can go to your node server and add app.get('/.well-known/acme-challenge/2elaFuIeUlvdNUGhnGa3A4NLSPYM21AyK7uHHZNc_s0', function (req, res) { res.sendFile(__dirname + '/.well-known/acme-challenge/2elaFuIeUlvdNUGhnGa3A4NLSPYM21AyK7uHHZNc_s0'); }); Download the certificates Step 2: Upload the ssl certificate to EBS environment Create a folder  .ebextensions Inside this folder, create a file called  https-instance.config  and put the following contents Resource...