The CloudTruth Blog

CI CD

Manage BitBucket Pipelines environment variables

CloudTruth Integration: Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD pipelines like Bitbucket can be notoriously complex to manage, especially if you have to coordinate configuration across... Read More

CI CD

GitLab CI/CD pipeline integration for multiple environments

CloudTruth Integration: GitLab CI/CD Pipelines If you’re managing one or more GitLab CI/CD pipelines, chances are you’re managing many different environments from development... Read More

Argo CD

Managing secrets with the CloudTruth Argo CD Plugin

Argo CD is a tool that allows you to deploy and manage Kubernetes resources as part of your GitOps workflows. Separating config data from source code is a best practice from... Read More

CI CD

Protect External Secrets in GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions and CloudTruth Protecting sensitive configuration items like passwords, API keys, and encryption keys has always been a challenge. Since this critical data is... Read More

Configuration Management

Feature Focus – Import Actions

What is an Import Action? CloudTruth offers the ability to import Parameters and Secrets from AWS parameter store (SSM). Import actions are created by selecting a CloudTruth ... Read More

Audit Trail

Feature Focus – Audit Trail

What is an Audit Trail? Audit trails chronologically record system-wide events and user activities to ensure a historical record is available for security and operational... Read More

Configuration Management

Feature Focus – Push Actions

What is a Push Action? CloudTruth offers the ability to create and update AWS Parameter and Secrets Manager data automatically with built in triggers. Push actions are... Read More

CI CD

How to mask secrets in Jenkins with the Mask Password plugin

Jenkins can already mask your sensitive secrets and passwords by storing them with Jenkins Credentials. However, there are times when you may be using an external secret... Read More

Engineering

Untested code is broken code

The other day, I sat in on a demo Jesse St. Laurent was giving. The customer had a question about whether a feature worked in a specific scenario. Since it turns out that I... Read More

Terraform

Managing Terraform Workspaces

You have already been using a Terraform workspace with the CLI you just may not know it yet! Every directory creates a default workspace when a terraform init is run. We are... Read More

Configuration Management

Feature Focus – Validating Configuration with Rules and Ranges

What are Rules and Ranges? Misconfiguration is one of the more common causes of system downtime. Though impossible to completely avoid, there are a number of strategies one... Read More

Configuration Management

Feature Focus – Parameter and Secret Versioning

What is Parameter and Secret Versioning? CloudTruth offers immutable versioning for all configuration data – parameters and secrets. Select the Project you are working and... Read More