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MSA 2022 - Compliance ✅
·2 mins
What are compliance checks? This here is a short post with links and references for my session at MacSysAdmin 2022. The NIST Cyber Security Framework is an important reference in the talk, not to prescribe specific controls (cause it doesn’t do that), but as a valuable resource to help align communications between teams around security and compliance.
asdf on macOS
·12 mins
We take a look at
asdf
, an amazing version manager for macOS. It is able to install and manage local versions of Python, Golang, Terraform and many others in a single straightforward workflow. These are supplementary notes for the MacDevOps:YVR Conference 2022 session on using the asdf version manager for runtimes and tools on macOS.
Nginx + mkcert + client certificates
·2 mins
Supplemental notes for the MacSyAdmin Conference 2021 to accompany the talk by following the lab setup for mutual-TLS.
MacSysAdmin Online 2021
·1 min
This year’s contribution to the MacSyAdmin Conference 2021 is about client certificate authentication in a mutual-TLS setup.
TFTP for remedy
The sudden task of deploying a TFTP server for an ad-hoc image/netboot purpose may seem a bit intimidating. But it’s better to get things over with quickly and then get back to exciting things.
Get familiar with notarytool (Xcode13)
·3 mins
A small but important update for customized Apple notarization workflows is required with Xcode 13 - get to know the new
notarytool
Hugo - starting with the setup/resources
·1 min
Some base notes about the Hugo resources used on this blog