Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management

Traditional secret-based credentials can't scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Today's applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds and colocation facilities, as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has its own attack vectors and protocols to consider.

How can you secure access to diverse infrastructure components, from bare metal to ephemeral containers, consistently and simply? In this practical book, authors Ev Kontsevoy, Sakshyam Shah, and Peter Conrad break this topic down into manageable pieces. You'll discover how different parts of the approach fit together in a way that enables engineering teams to build more secure applications without slowing down productivity.

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Git Doesn't Have to Be Hard

Git isn't hard, it's just explained badly! This book will help you understand Git, get started using it, and stay out of trouble. You’ll learn the basics of working with Git day to day, how to collaborate with others, and a few fun tips and tricks including simple branching strategies like the GitHub workflow. You'll understand the concepts behind Git and why it's different from traditional centralized source control. Whether you're a programmer, a manager, an author, or a technical writer, you'll learn how to manage your files with Git.

This book includes instructions for popular Git clients like GitHub Desktop and Sourcetree as well as basic and intermediate Git commands on the command line, for Linux, macOS, and Windows. A section at the end of the book shows you how to fix common Git mistakes and problems, getting you out of trouble. You'll even learn how to use Bitbucket or GitHub to create a wiki or a static website in Git.

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Markdown Dreams: How to do things with Markdown and Git

Markdown is not just a markup language. It is an ecosystem of powerful tools that lets you quickly craft an HTML page, manage a full doc set, take notes, write a novel—even create a slide presentation. Markdown makes it easy to create content quickly, because its simple syntax covers most of the bases without requiring you to take your fingers off the keys.With shared storage or source control, Markdown can be a powerful collaboration framework, suitable for both technical and non-technical contributors and supported by tools that meet every preference.This guide presents some basic recipes for working with useful Markdown tools to create powerful content.

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This Was 2020

Instead of sending holiday cards in December, I send a comic each January about my life during the previous year. It's usually about 16 pages and very private to friends and family.2020 was different.A lot of things happened, and I ended up with a graphic novel about the year we all remember: quarantine, protest, turmoil, and some joy. Some of what happened to me is probably like what happened to you. Some of it is probably quite different. This is my story from 2020.

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