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Creating a Simple but Effective Outbound "Firewall" using Vanilla Docker-Compose

This is great for inbound connections, but it does nothing to control outbound connections. ...I would much rather find a way to control outbound connections using the vanilla docker and docker-compose features. So that's what I set out to do, and that's where the internal networks come into play.…
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Understanding the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH)

This post was written as a how-to guide for the capsul cloud compute provider by cyberia.club! SSH is a very old tool, created back when the internet was a different place, with different use cases…
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How to connect to a remote redis server securely with TLS

Redis doesn't ship with TLS support out of the box, a heinous omission to be sure. TLS support can be enabled by compiling a custom build yourself, but the official "Securing Redis" guide re…
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How to get a decrypted Wireshark packet capture from a node.js application that is talking HTTPS

I have a node.js application that is talking HTTPS with some server I don't have access to... How can I capture the traffic so that I can see the contents of the requests and responses? Yes, this has…
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How to get a decrypted Wireshark packet capture from a Java application that is talking HTTPS

I have a Java application that is talking HTTPS with some server I don't have access to... How can I capture the traffic so that I can see the contents of the requests and responses? This post is Par…
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tickscript-studio for kapacitor

Finally I get to show off some of the cool stuff I've been developing at work! I got the go-ahead from my employer to open-source one of the tools I developed called tickscript-studio. This is a w…
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How to use free LetsEncrypt SSL certificates with Docker and jwilder/nginx-proxy

In my last post, I talked a little bit about the magical ease-of-use that comes from Jason Wilder's nginx-proxy Docker container, which I use to route subdomains on sequentialread.com. Well, today I…