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Posts in 2024
  • How to Bake an Ortelius Pi Part 3 | The Configuration

    Tuesday, April 09, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction In Part 1, of this series I walked through an installation of Ubuntu Server 22.04.4 LTS on the Raspberry Pis. In Part 2, of this series we configured DHCP, DNS, NFS and deployed MicroK8s. In Part 3 we will deploy the following: Deploy …

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  • How Ortelius Models Threats with ML Workflows - A Roadmap

    Tuesday, April 09, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Why are Threat Models Needed? What’s the Problem? Developers around the globe are consuming open-source packages all day long. One “npm install” and BOOM the new intern can now single-handedly code your carefully architected payment flow service. …

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  • How to Bake an Ortelius Pi Part 2 | The Preparation

    Monday, April 08, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction In Part 1, of this series we installed Ubuntu Server 22.04.4 LTS on our Raspberry Pis. In this follow-up blog, I will help you prepare three Pis for DHCP, DNS, NFS (Network File System) storage with a Synology NAS and install MicroK8s. …

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  • How to Bake an Ortelius Pi Part 1 | The Hardware

    Friday, April 05, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Introduction I recently started building an entire Cloud Native environment on three Raspberry Pi 4 B’s with an old Synology DS413j (ARMv5 architecture) running the latest firmware update, DSM 6.2.4-25556 Update 7 Release Notes, and so far its …

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  • 2024 BlogAThon Results

    Monday, April 01, 2024 in Ortelius News

    2024 BlogAThon - Read the Latest Blogs by the Ortelius Committer Community The Ortelius community held their 4th annual BlogAThon. Thank you to all who participated. Here is a list of the 2024 BlogAThon articles: What are non-functional requirements …

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  • What Metadata is Required for AI DevSecOps?

    Saturday, March 30, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Creating the Next Generation AI DevSecOps Pipeline As IT teams strive to bolster software supply chains against hidden vulnerabilities in open-source and third-party components, the demand for smart, streamlined, and automated DevSecOps pipelines is …

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  • What is Threat Modeling?

    Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    What is Threat Modeling? - Basic Concepts to Get You Started In a data-driven world digital security and awareness are vital for people, academy, industry, and government. A cyberattack can take away more than your breath. It can take away your …

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  • Peeling the SecOps Onion

    Tuesday, March 26, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Exposing Vulnerabilities by Peeling the SecOps Onion How do you peel an onion? Normally, you would peel an onion layer by layer and that’s precisely what Ortelius can do for you minus the crying bit. The security landscape is treacherous. We …

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  • 2024 Ortelius Non-functional Requirements

    Thursday, February 29, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    What are Non-functional Requirements Non-functional requirements specify criteria that define the operation of a system rather than its specific behaviors. They describe attributes such as performance, security, scalability, reliability, and …

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  • What are non-functional requirements and why do they matter?

    Wednesday, February 28, 2024 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    In the modern DevSecOps world, we are often building the system (plane) as it is flying; at least that is the saying. The point of this adage is that we often build as we go and without any documentation, including making sure that we’ve thought …

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